Daler Mehndi, Navjot Sidhu share same barrack in Patiala jail; Bikram Majithia also in same prison

Chandigarh, July 16

Punjabi singer Daler Mehndi and Congress leader Navjot Sidhu share the same barrack in the Patiala Central Jail.

The other high-profile politician in the jail is SAD leader Bikram Majithia.

The Patiala district court on Thursday upheld the two-year jail term of Mehndi, who in 2018 was sentenced for a 2003 human trafficking case.

Mehndi had been kept in Barrack No 10 where Sidhu is also serving time, a jail official said, on condition of anonymity.

Majithia has been lodged in the neighbouring barrack in a drugs case registered against him in December last year.

Jail officials said while Mehndi and Majithia are not on a special diet or home-cooked food, Sidhu, who was sentenced to one year in a 1988 road rage case, had been put on a special diet as recommended by a medical board.

Sidhu’s high-fibre and low-fat diet mainly comprises fruit and vegetables. The meal is cooked without desi ghee, butter or any other saturated fatty oils.

All high-profile prisoners have been lodged in ordinary barracks as the state government has stopped the practice of having special cells for VIP prisoners. IANS