NEW DELHI: Dressed in an orange salwar suit, Kanimozhi stepped into Tihar Jail around 4.30pm on Friday after a Delhi court ordered her arrest "forthwith". Hours ago, outside the court she had told reporters: "I was expecting it."
Kanimozhi, former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi's daughter, was driven into the prison complex in a police van with other woman inmates returning from court.
For the next few nights, she will sleep on a concrete platform in a 10x15 foot cell of Tihar's female ward 8 jail number 6. She will be allowed a layer of blankets to use as cushion. First-time offenders are detained in this ward. For company, Kanimozhi will have a small TV set and some newspapers. Her neighbours: Alleged spy Madhuri Gupta and infamous pimp Sonu Punjaban.
A woman constable escorted the DMK MP to prison. But her sullenness disappeared the moment she got off the prison van as personnel from the Tamil Nadu Special Police surrounded her. "They chatted in Tamil for about 15 minutes and she smiled with them and asked them about their job," a jail source said.
Some DMK MPs, including T R Baalu, and her husband G Aravinthan came to meet her in the jail later. The DMK leader's cell has a small toilet, a fan, a TV set and light. Similar facilities have been given to other 2G accused including former telecom minister A Raja. Like the former telecom minister, she will be given south Indian food. Her clothes and bedding came from home. Asked to take off her jewellery, Kanimozhi was a picture of resignation as she complied. "As per jail rules, she was immediately made to undergo a medical examination after which she was taken to her cell. She was shown her cell after which she showered.
Kanimozhi used a toilet that only had a curtain. "The bathrooms are inside the cell and there is no wall. We string up curtains when the inmate has to go to the bathroom. This is regular," he said. Her dinner was chapatti, rice, subzi and dal. She ate inside her cell and the food was the same as given to other inmates. Kanimozhi, the prison official said, expressed concern over mosquitoes and asked if she would be provided a mosquito repellant. Kanimozhi also struck up a conversation with other woman prisoners, especially those from Tamil Nadu. But officials made it clear she won't be allowed to interact with any of the 2G accused lodged in jails 1, 3 and 4.
Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar was sent to jail number 4 where former Commonwealth Games chief organizer Suresh Kalmadi is also lodged. He was lodged in ward number 15 and also given bedsheets, a mattress, a TV, books and attached bathroom. "Medical tests were also conducted on him and he ate dinner but did not take a shower.
Kanimozhi, former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi's daughter, was driven into the prison complex in a police van with other woman inmates returning from court.
For the next few nights, she will sleep on a concrete platform in a 10x15 foot cell of Tihar's female ward 8 jail number 6. She will be allowed a layer of blankets to use as cushion. First-time offenders are detained in this ward. For company, Kanimozhi will have a small TV set and some newspapers. Her neighbours: Alleged spy Madhuri Gupta and infamous pimp Sonu Punjaban.
A woman constable escorted the DMK MP to prison. But her sullenness disappeared the moment she got off the prison van as personnel from the Tamil Nadu Special Police surrounded her. "They chatted in Tamil for about 15 minutes and she smiled with them and asked them about their job," a jail source said.
Some DMK MPs, including T R Baalu, and her husband G Aravinthan came to meet her in the jail later. The DMK leader's cell has a small toilet, a fan, a TV set and light. Similar facilities have been given to other 2G accused including former telecom minister A Raja. Like the former telecom minister, she will be given south Indian food. Her clothes and bedding came from home. Asked to take off her jewellery, Kanimozhi was a picture of resignation as she complied. "As per jail rules, she was immediately made to undergo a medical examination after which she was taken to her cell. She was shown her cell after which she showered.
Kanimozhi used a toilet that only had a curtain. "The bathrooms are inside the cell and there is no wall. We string up curtains when the inmate has to go to the bathroom. This is regular," he said. Her dinner was chapatti, rice, subzi and dal. She ate inside her cell and the food was the same as given to other inmates. Kanimozhi, the prison official said, expressed concern over mosquitoes and asked if she would be provided a mosquito repellant. Kanimozhi also struck up a conversation with other woman prisoners, especially those from Tamil Nadu. But officials made it clear she won't be allowed to interact with any of the 2G accused lodged in jails 1, 3 and 4.
Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar was sent to jail number 4 where former Commonwealth Games chief organizer Suresh Kalmadi is also lodged. He was lodged in ward number 15 and also given bedsheets, a mattress, a TV, books and attached bathroom. "Medical tests were also conducted on him and he ate dinner but did not take a shower.
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