She initially plans to find another way to get rid of Leyla but later tells her that she can stay, providing they work separately and only see each other when necessary. Leyla agrees and Megan tells her that she isn't dumping Jai, as she has lost too much already. Consequently, when Jai is approached by a man called Josh, who claims to be bringing Archie back as Rachel needs money for rehab, Jai believes him. He pays Josh and he, Megan and baby Archie become a family until Rachel and the real Archie return. On learning that he has bought someone else's child, Jai calls Social Services, giving "Archie" to them and later learns that Josh sold his own son. Desperate to gain custody of the real Archie, he locks Rachel in a freezer when she threatens to use him buying a baby against him in court. He later releases her and goes to a solicitor, seeking residency, claiming that he and his wife can provide better than Rachel and Sam. Knowing that he has no case, Jai resorts to dirty tricks - including drugging Rachel so she misses a mediation session and putting a camera on Archie's teddy bear so he can spy on Rachel and Sam. Sadly for Jai, the camera records him and Leyla together and Rachel finds the footage. She and Sam show Megan the footage and they plan revenge together. Jai gets custody of Archie briefly after the police find drugs in Rachel's belongings. She is arrested and charged with possession but Megan's revenge on Jai is to tell the family court about he had been bullying Rachel in the hope she would drop her case for residency. She also claims to have had a miscarriage and the family court, now believing that Jai is a danger to his son, only allows him supervised access twice a month. Consequently, Jai starts taking cocaine far more regularly and makes himself seriously ill on 2 occasions, unaware that Megan is still pregnant. In March 2018, Jai finds bruises on Eliza's legs following her 2nd birthday party. When Priya confesses to having an outburst towards his daughter earlier, Jai and Megan suspect her of child abuse, a belief that is strengthened when the bruises disappear after Megan takes full custody of her. Ultimately, however, Priya's innocence is proved when Eliza's bruises return and are determined to be the result of her medication for epilepsy. Holy Soap describe Jai's most memorable moment as: "Informing brother Nikhil that he now owned the factory, rather than their father."