Falsely accused of having massage in Tihar jail: AAP's Satyendar Jain

AAP leader Satyendar Jain on Saturday said he was falsely accused of having massage in Tihar jail while he was getting physiotherapy due to severe leg painA controversy arose in November 2022 when videos of CCTV camera footage from Tihar jail surfaced showing alleged massage being given to Jain who was then the Delhi prisons department ministerIn a statement issued by AAP Jain said the video was an exaggeration The doctor had prescribed exclusive bed rest for a month and the hospital doctors suggested him to stay in a room with better facilities He could not bend or lift anything and was restricted from moving the former Delhi minister saidDuring that time I had severe leg pain They arranged everything accordinglyDoes anyone ever get a massage fully clothed The physiotherapist was just doing his job yet they falsely claimed I was getting a massage said the AAP leaderJain was released from Tihar jail where he spent 18 months on Saturday after being granted bail by a Delhi court in a money laundering caseHe was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate ED in connection with the case in March 2022He said Tihar jail has cameras everywhere and questioned why does not footage of anything else came out and only his was availableThey claimed I was having lavish meals but all I had were seasonal fruits and vegetables he said and claimed for an entire year he did not eat any lavish meal and lost 40 kg of weight in the jailTheres a canteen where anyone can buy food with money and I have all the bills to prove it They said I drank bottled water but I bought it from the canteen which is available to everyone he saidThe former minister also claimed that everyone had a TV in jail but he did not have a separate oneI was kept in a barrack for months where even notorious criminals are not kept for more than 15 days he claimedNo immediate reaction was available from Tihar administration over Jains claimsI was kept isolated and even after doctors advised otherwise they refused to let me be with others as they wanted to torture me Jain claimedHe lashed out at the BJP alleging if not for the judiciary the BJP would have hanged meReferring to his videos from the jail Jain said If the BJP is making these claims why did they not release the video earlier They only started airing it during the Gujarat elections Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said Jains claims and charges were ridiculousThe AAP leaders spin fabricated stories after coming out of jail as Arvind Kejriwal Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh did earlier and now Satyendar Jain is doing the same If Jain was having problems in Tihar what stopped him from bringing it to the notice of the court Kapoor askedOn the first day of his freedom after months of imprisonment the AAP leader visited a Jain temple along with his family In the evening he attended a party meeting in which Kejriwal and other senior leaders were presentThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever