Serving one-year rigorous imprisonment in a 1988 street rage case, former Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu is working as a clerk on the Patiala Central Jail.
According to jail officers, Sidhu — prisoner quantity 243183 who has been positioned in Barrack No 7 — will work from his cell and won’t exit for work due to safety issues. Files shall be despatched over to his barrack.
For the primary three months, Sidhu shall be skilled on the way to temporary prolonged court docket judgments and compile jail information. While he won’t be paid for these 90 days, Sidhu shall be entitled to get wages between Rs 30-Rs 90 per day after being categorized as an unskilled, semi-skilled or expert prisoner.
According to jail authorities, the cricketer-turned-politician began working as a clerk on Tuesday. He shall be working in two shifts — 9 am to 12 midday and three pm to five pm.
The cricketer-turned-politician was sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court on May 19 in a 1988 street rage case. He surrendered on May 20 earlier than the trial court docket in Patiala.
Sidhu had approached the highest court docket searching for a number of weeks’ time to give up citing medical circumstances, however the request was denied.
According to his counsel HPS Verma, Sidhu can not devour wheat, sugar, ‘maida’ and another meals gadgets. “He can have berries, papaya, guava, double-toned milk and food items which do not have fibre and carbohydrates,” Verma mentioned.
The 58-year-old Congress chief suffers from medical circumstances like embolism and has a liver ailment. In 2015, Sidhu had additionally undergone therapy for acute deep vein thrombosis (DVT) at a hospital in Delhi.
He has been really useful a eating regimen chart contemplating his medical situation. The particular eating regimen has been prescribed after an evaluation of his well being.
“A specially designed diet plan under a dietitian is helpful in controlling medical conditions such as sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol. Certain medicines like blood thinners or anticoagulants on top can increase the further need to be mindful of what you consume. The number of meals depends on the person’s dietary needs, and hunger,” Lakshita Jain, licensed scientific dietician, lecturer, diabetes educator, meat technologist, and founding father of NUTR, informed The Indian Express.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”