New Delhi: Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram who was lodged in Tihar Jail Thursday will not find it easy to adjust to the stifling barracks which will be a far cry from his days in North Block.
He will also have to eat the jail’s ‘dal-roti’ in plastic utensils or he can get food from the jail canteen. His son Karti Chidambaram was also lodged in the same jail earlier. A court here sent him to 14-day judicial custody in the INX Media case.
The span will cover Chidambaram’s 74th birthday – September 16 – which he will have to spend locked up. The court has allowed him to take his medicines along with him. Since Chidambaram enjoys Z-category security, the court also allowed him to be kept in a separate cell with adequate arrangements for his security. The senior Congress leader, who was arrested by the CBI last month and had undergone interrogation, will be lodged in the jail till September 19.
With a high-profile under-trial like Chidambaram set to be lodged in the prison, one would expect special arrangements to be made. On being asked about specific preparations, Director General of Prisons, Sandeep Goyal told reporters: “A jail is a jail. We only follow the court orders. No one lodged in a jail is special.”
