Tihar Jail Superintendent Issued Notice For Moving Inmates To Satyendar Jain's Cell On Former Delhi Minister's Request

Delhi Tihar prison superintendent has been issued a show cause notice for transferring two inmates to the cell of former AAP minister Satyendar Jain.

Satyendar Jain, who was arrested last year in a corruption case and is lodged in the high-security prison, sent a letter on 11 May imploring the prison administration to lodge him with more inmates.

In his letter, Jain cited depression and doctor’s advice for more social interactions.

"I am feeling depressed and low because of loneliness. A psychiatrist suggested me for more social interactions and he requested to lodge him with at least two more persons," Jain wrote in the letter, reports NDTV.

He also provided two persons' names in the letter.

Two prisoners were moved to Jain’s cell by the superintendent of jail number 7.

Last year on 30 May, the Enforcement Directorate arrested the ex-minister under a money-laundering investigation initiated by the probe agency after the CBI filed a FIR on 24 August 2017.