Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha cannot be given home-cooked food inside prison, the administrator of Tihar Jail informed Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court on Sunday. The daughter of former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had filed an application in court alleging that the jail authorities did not comply with the court’s order to provide her with home-cooked food.
Kavitha is lodged at the jail after she was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate from her home at Banjara Hills in Hyderabad on March 15 in connection with the Delhi liquor policy case. She has been sent to judicial custody till April 9.
Advocate Nitesh Rana, appearing for K Kavitha, informed the court that she suffers from hypertension and the condition has been worsening as she does not get South Indian food.
The court, however, said it will consider the BRS leader’s request for home-cooked food only if there is a prescription prescribing the same as it is not allowed otherwise.
It also clarified that its order was to provide food as per the jail’s rules and authorities have informed that home-cooked meals are not permitted.
The court took exception to K Kavitha’s counsel filing the non-compliance application after her lawyer sought to take instructions from his client on what has been provided to her. It asked the lawyer to withdraw the application.
“Are you saying you didn’t take instructions from your client before filing this application? How can you file an application without any information? Withdraw the application, seek appropriate instructions and then file. I am not saying we won’t look into it, but we need to know what the grievance is,” the court said.
However, Kavitha’s lawyer argued that only the court can make a decision if home-cooked food is not allowed as per the rules of the jail.
When the court asked him the grounds on which it would order an exception to be made for K Kavitha, her lawyer sought more time to get some judgements on the issue.
Source Agencies
