New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh addresses a press conference in New Delhi, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. (PTI: Photo/Vijay Verma)
Senior AAP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh on Saturday alleged that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was not allowed to meet his family at the Mulakat Jangla’ in Tihar Jail.
Addressing a press conference, Singh said, “There is an attempt to break CM Kejriwal’s morale.
His family is not allowed to have personal meetings with him. They are only allowed to meet him through the jangla. This is inhumane. Even hardcore criminals are allowed to have personal meetings,” the AAP leader said.
The ‘mulakat jangla’ is an iron mesh that separates the prisoner from the visitor in a room in the prison. A visitor and an inmate can talk to each other by sitting on different sides of the mesh.
There was no immediate response from the Tihar government.
On Friday, jail authorities scheduled Kejriwal’s meeting with his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann on April 15, saying he could meet the AAP convener but as a normal visitor in the ‘mulakat jangla’.
The chief minister met his wife Sunita Kejriwal and personal secretary Bibhav Kumar at Tihar jail on Tuesday.
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First print: April 13, 2024 | 12:41 pm IST