Day in the Life of Prisoner Navjot Sidhu: From Waking Up at 5.30 AM to Working for 8 Hrs

Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu surrendered earlier than a courtroom in Patiala on Might 20 and will probably be serving his one-year sentence within the central jail. The Supreme Courtroom on Thursday pronounced the sentence in a 1988 street rage loss of life case. In Patiala jail, Sidhu won’t be incomes wages for 3 months earlier than he’s categorised as unskilled, semi-skilled or expert.

The 58-year-old former Punjab Congress chief surrendered shortly after 4 pm on Friday, and was taken for a compulsory medical examination to Mata Kaushalya Hospital. After the check-up, he was taken to the jail in a police jeep. Patiala is the native city of the previous India cricketer. Right here’s what a day in Sidhu’s life could appear to be in jail:

1. The day in jail begins at 5.30 am
2. At 7 am, biscuits or black chickpeas are served with tea
3. A brunch of six chapatis, dal or greens will probably be served at 8.30 am following which the inmates go to work
4. Inmates end their work, allotted as per class, at 5.30 pm
5. Prisoners eat their dinner of six chapatis, dal or greens at 6 pm
6. By 7 pm, all inmates are locked inside their barracks

Whereas in jail, Sidhu will bear coaching with out pay for 3 months, in response to the Punjab Jail Guide. After that, he will probably be categorised as unskilled, semi-skilled or expert. Inmates earn Rs 30 to Rs 90 every day.

Inmates work for eight hours per day and their costs are borne by the federal government. In keeping with the guide, 25 per cent earnings by the inmate are as jail foreign money whereas the remainder is put right into a financial savings account.

Earlier when Sidhu went to the courtroom to give up, some get together leaders together with Navtej Singh Cheema, Ashwani Sekhri, Hardial Singh Kamboj, Pirmal Singh and his supporters accompanied him. Cheema drove Sidhu, who was wearing a blue-coloured ‘pathani swimsuit’ and was carrying darkish goggles. However in jail, Sidhu must put on the necessary white garments of an inmate.

Whereas in jail, Sidhu must keep away from a weight loss program that has wheat flour, stated his media adviser Surinder Dalla. The Congress chief had undergone two to a few surgical procedures and suffers from medical circumstances like embolism and has a liver ailment.

Dalla additionally stated Sidhu might want to take some remedy. In 2015, Sidhu additionally underwent therapy for acute deep vein thrombosis (DVT) at a hospital in Delhi. DVT is attributable to a blood clot in a deep vein which hinders the conventional blood movement.

Mockingly, Sidhu’s arch rival Akali Dal chief Bikram Singh Majithia can also be lodged in the identical jail in reference to a drug case. Majithia had contested in opposition to Sidhu from Amritsar (East). Each leaders misplaced the election to AAP’s Jeevanjot Kaur.

(With PTI inputs)

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