Chennai, July 25 (BPNS)
Tamil Nadu law minister, S. Raghupathi on Tuesday said that there was no special facility for the jailed minister Senthil Balaji.
Speaking to journalists at Pudukottai on Tuesday, the minister said that Senthil Balaji was provided ‘A’ class facilities in the jail which he was entitled as a minister. However, the law minister said that he was not provided any extra facilities as a minister or as a leader of the ruling DMK party.
The minister said that there was erroneous information was being spread in social media that the jailed minister Senthil Balaji was receiving extra facilities in the Puzhal central prison and was leading a luxurious life in prison.
He said that the jail officials were not providing any special facilities to the minister in the jail and added that even the Chief Minister will not approve of such an act.
The state law minister also said that food from outside cannot be brought inside the jail and AC facilities could not be provided in the jail.
It is to be noted that Tamil Nadu minister Senthil Balaji was arrested by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on June 14 in a case related to job for money. The minister had said that he was having pain in his chest and an angiogram at a Government hospital in Chennai diagnosed that he had three blocks in the coronary artery. Angioplasty was done on him at the Kauveri hospital in Chennai after a bench of the Madras High Court allowed it.
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