AAP minister Satyendar Jain calls for fruits, salad weight-reduction plan inside jail

Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) minister Satyendar Jain who’s at present lodged in Tihar jail over alleged cash laundering, approached a CBI courtroom on Monday demanding entry to a ‘spiritual weight-reduction plan’. He demanded fruits and salads and mentioned that he was not given ‘Jain meals’.

Jain, in an software filed within the courtroom acknowledged that he was not given entry to the temple and was not given ‘Jain meals’. He mentioned that he doesn’t eat common meals with out going to the temple. He mentioned that he can not have ‘grains or milk merchandise’ with out going to the temple. Jain additionally mentioned in his software that he was not given a fruits and salad weight-reduction plan for the previous two days. 

Jain’s petition will likely be heard within the CBI courtroom right now. 

The appliance additional claimed that for the previous six months, he has been surviving solely on fruits, greens, seeds and dry fruits that he bought from his personal quota of ration accessible to inmates. He suffered a serious fall that led to a backbone damage, and was handled in LNJP Hospital.  

However for the previous few days the jail administration has stopped offering him fundamental meals as per his spiritual beliefs, the applying acknowledged. It referred to as stopping meals gadgets throughout spiritual fasting unlawful and arbitrary. 

The applicant is being starved by the jail authorities and never given sustenance or vitamin, talked about the applying. It additionally acknowledged that Jain was due for a medical check-up however was not allowed by the jail authorities. 

The appliance comes after movies of Jain receiving massages and assembly guests in his jail cell emerged. BJP and Congress demanded his sacking and a probe into violation of jail guidelines. Following this, Jain sought contempt proceedings in opposition to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for allegedly leaking CCTV footage of his jail cell to the media.

Jain was arrested in a cash laundering case primarily based on a CBI FIR lodged in opposition to him in 2017 below the Prevention of Corruption Act. He’s accused of getting laundered cash by means of 4 corporations allegedly linked to him.

(With PTI inputs)

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