The BJP questioned new footage of the Delhi minister allegedly receiving meals from outside on Wednesday in the wake of the controversy surrounding Satyendar Jain’s massage video from Tihar. The Delhi minister is depicted in the video sitting in the same cell where he was before seen getting a massage. A person from the outside approaches, brings him food, and also sets the trash can close to him. There are a lot of empty boxes on the bed.
A Tihar Jail source who claimed that the minister has gained 8kg of weight in jail contrary to his lawyer’s claim that he lost 28kg of weight, according to a report published by the news agency ANI.
Sharing the food video, BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said after getting ‘champi’ from a ‘rapist’ whom they tries to pass off a physiotherapist, now another video shows Satyendar Jain being served outside food. “he is being served outside food by two attendants as if he is in a resort or restaurant and there is a variety of delicacies and dishes in front him — as if he is not there for the saza (punishment) of corruption, but maza (fun) of massage and restaurant food.
“Kejriwal must answer why Jain who has been in jail for the last 5 months is being given this facility — by keeping him in the minister post — to take ‘vasooli’ from Sukesh, ‘maalish’ from a rapist and now outside food,” Shehzad said.
On Tuesday, Jain submitted in court that he was not getting any privilege in jail. In fact, he was deprived of facilities like proper food and medical check-ups that he is supposed to get, he said. “I have lost 28 kg in jail. Is this what a privileged person in jail gets? I’m not even getting proper food. What privilege are they talking about? No prison rules are violated if an undertrial is pressing his hand or feet,” the minister submitted in the court through his lawyer Rahul Mehra.
“Even Ajmal Kasab got a free and fair trial,” Jain’s lawyer submitted. “I am surely not worse than that. All I seek is a fair and free trial. Please look at the kind of media reports that are running against him and that is in their interest,” Mehra added.
Ahead of the Gujarat assembly election and the Delhi municipal polls, the BJP and the AAP are at odds. The AAP-BJP rivalry grew more heated as a result of several controversies surrounding Satyendar Jain’s incarceration. Conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, who was imprisoned in connection with a case involving the money laundering of Rs 200 crore, alleged in a string of charges that he had paid Satyendar Jain money in exchange for “protection.”
When the massage controversy erupted, the AAP maintained that Satyendar Jain’s treatment included physiotherapy; nonetheless, it has been asserted that the man who was spotted giving Jain the massage is a rape suspect.