Ex-Punjab Congress chief Navjot Sidhu’s jail food regimen to comprise lactose-free milk, coconut water, juice

By PTI

CHANDIGARH: Jailed Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu will function a clerk within the Patiala central jail and can get a doctor-recommended every day food regimen that features coconut water, lactose-free milk, a glass of juice and some almonds, an official mentioned.

A board of docs has really helpful a particular food regimen for Sidhu after he had sought the identical within the jail. His medical examination was performed on May 23 at Rajindra hospital in Patiala, Punjab.

The 58-year-old cricketer-turned-politician’s particular food regimen contains one cup of rosemary tea or one glass of coconut water in early morning, and one cup of lactose-free milk, one tablespoon of flax/sunflower/melon/chia seeds, five-six almonds, one walnut and two pecan nuts in breakfast.

In the mid-morning meal, the docs have really helpful a glass of juice (beetroot, cucumber, tulsi leaves, Amla, carrot and so forth), or any of fruits like watermelon, melon, kiwi, guava and so forth, or sprouted black chana, inexperienced gram with cucumber/tomato/half lemon/avocado.

For lunch, the docs have instructed one bowl of cucumber, seasonal inexperienced greens with one chapati of sorghum, singhara or ragi flours. In the night, he has been really helpful a cup of tea with low-fat milk and 25 grams of ‘paneer’ slice or tofu with half lemon.

For dinner, the docs have really helpful combine greens and ‘dal’ soup or black chana soup and one bowl of sauteed inexperienced greens. At bedtime, Sidhu has been really helpful one cup of chamomile tea and one tablespoon of psyllium husk with half glass of heat water, in keeping with the food regimen plan for inmates.

The Congress chief suffers from medical circumstances like embolism and has a liver ailment. In 2015, he underwent therapy for acute deep vein thrombosis (DVT) at a hospital in Delhi. DVT is brought on by a blood clot in a deep vein which hinders the conventional blood stream.

A jail official mentioned Sidhu has been appointed as ‘munshi’ (assistant) to do clerical work within the jail. The official added that he’ll carry out the job from his barrack solely due to safety causes. According to the jail guide, prisoners are categorised as unskilled, semi-skilled and expert.

Unskilled and semi-skilled prisoners get Rs 40 and Rs 50 per day, respectively. Skilled prisoners get Rs 60 per day. Sidhu, the previous Punjab Congress chief, was despatched to Patiala central jail on May 20 after he surrendered earlier than an area court docket.

He has been sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court in a 1988 highway rage loss of life case.

The apex court docket had sentenced him within the 34-year-old case, saying any undue sympathy in imposing an insufficient sentence would do extra hurt to the justice system and undermine the general public confidence within the efficacy of regulation.

A 65-year-old man, named Gurnam Singh, had died within the incident.