Former Tihar official refutes Manish Sisodia’s claims that Satyendar Jain was receiving physiotherapy in jail

Videos of Satyendar Jain, the Delhi Health Minister who’s being held in Tihar Prison, receiving a foot therapeutic massage have gone viral on social media, sparking an issue. Defending the movies, Delhi’s deputy chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party chief Manish Sisodia claimed that Satyendar Jain was getting his standard physiotherapy therapy for a backbone damage and never some therapeutic massage.

Now, a former official of the Tihar jail has come ahead to refute the claims made by Manish Sisodia. Sunil Gupta, former PRO of the Tihar jail has shared detailed details about the practices allowed within the jail and issues that aren’t allowed.

According to a report by India Today, Sunil Gupta mentioned, “The physiotherapy is always done in a separate room by professionals with physiotherapy equipment and never in a jail cell. In the video, the convicts are seen massaging the minister, which is illegal. Usually, convicts line up to provide massage to influential people so that once they get out, they can provide favours to the convicts as well.”

Sunil Gupta added, “Home-cooked food is completely banned and even packed food from outside is not allowed. This is because wrong things were being smuggled under the garb of home-cooked food. If a minister had a one-on-one meeting with his wife, then it is illegal. We don’t allow any special treatment in terms of meetings and no one-on-one meetings are allowed inside the jail.”

Sunil Gupta additional added, “TV sets are generally in barracks but under some conditions, they can be provided in jail cells, so it is not illegal. Mineral water bottles can be purchased and taken to jail cells, according to the jail manual. If an influential person such as a gangster, or politician comes to jail, then the system collapses and the ordinary jail officials succumb to the pressure. For a free and fair probe, Satyendar Jain should have stepped aside from the post.”

The therapeutic massage that he was being given contained in the cell just isn’t permissible below jail guidelines. As far as physiotherapy is worried, in each jail, there’s a physiotherapy centre the place therapeutic massage may be given by a physiotherapist or a educated skilled: Sunil Gupta, former PRO, Tihar Jail pic.twitter.com/7r3DneOuFG

— ANI (@ANI) November 19, 2022

About Satyendar Jain getting a therapeutic massage, Sunil Gupta spoke intimately with the information company ANI. He mentioned, “The video clearly showed that other prisoners were giving him massages. Massage is different from physiotherapy. Physiotherapy is given in physiotherapy wards in the hospital. The massage that he was being given inside the cell is not permissible under jail rules. As far as physiotherapy is concerned, in every jail, there is a physiotherapy center where massage can be given by a physiotherapist or a trained expert.”

Days after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) said that Satyendar Jain was being given preferential therapy contained in the Tihar jail, CCTV footage from inside the jail premises was made public on Saturday exhibiting Jain having fun with his keep within the jail.

मौज है मौज। सत्येंद्र जैन का तिहाड़ी मसाज पार्लर
जैन की मौज
सत्येंद्र जैन का मसाज वीडियो वायरल !
जेल में बंद सत्येंद्र जैन का वीडियो। #SatyendarJain pic.twitter.com/KasD0LP9kP

— SHAMSHER SINGH (@ShamsherSLive) November 19, 2022

The video which surfaced on November 19 confirmed Jain getting particular therapy contained in the jail. In the video, Jain is being given foot therapeutic massage and head therapeutic massage in jail whereas he’s mendacity on the mattress and studying some paperwork.