LUCKNOW: On day one of her sentence at Dasna jail, former Uttar Pradesh chief secretary Neera Yadav had a high profile visitor: Samajwadi Party state chief Akhilesh Yadav. The son of Mulayam Singh Yadav was not alone in meeting the convicts in the Noida land scam case. The other visitor was industrialist Ponty Chaddha, who met jailed Ashok Chaturvedi of Uflex industries.
After a no-frill dinner and a night in their respective cells, the two convicts got their surprise visitors in the morning. Neera Yadav was flipping through Nehru's "Discovery of India" from the jail library after a medical check up and breakfast of porridge. The first to reach was Ponty Chaddha.
After the mandatory documentation, he was escorted to the meeting hall where he was joined by Chaturvedi. Even as his meeting with Chaturvedi was on, Akhilesh arrived at 11am and was led into a chamber where Neera Yadav met him. Both the meetings lasted for around half-an-hour in separate chambers with no one else present.
What surprised the jail staff was that none of the family members of the two called on them on Wednesday. They are apparently in Allahabad trying to move the Allahabad high court. During the day, the two were served lunch which had a potato-turnip dish with chana daal, roti and rice.
The convicts reached Dasna in Ghaziabad on Tuesday evening after being sentenced to four years in jail by the special CBI court. After all the documentation and frisking, Neera was allotted mahila cell number 1 — one of the two women barracks in Dasna. Chaturvedi was lodged at new prisoner barrack number 2. Through with the mandatory fingerprint impression, they were handed over convict uniforms: blue saree for women and a white kurta-pyjama for men. They were given two blankets each on request and escorted to their respective barracks.
The retired IAS officer was up early on Wednesday morning after what was described as a "restless long night" in her cell which she shares with seven other women convicts. After spending a few hours in her cell, she was escorted to the jail hospital for a check-up: both Yadav and Chaturvedi had complained of chest pain.
After a no-frill dinner and a night in their respective cells, the two convicts got their surprise visitors in the morning. Neera Yadav was flipping through Nehru's "Discovery of India" from the jail library after a medical check up and breakfast of porridge. The first to reach was Ponty Chaddha.
After the mandatory documentation, he was escorted to the meeting hall where he was joined by Chaturvedi. Even as his meeting with Chaturvedi was on, Akhilesh arrived at 11am and was led into a chamber where Neera Yadav met him. Both the meetings lasted for around half-an-hour in separate chambers with no one else present.
What surprised the jail staff was that none of the family members of the two called on them on Wednesday. They are apparently in Allahabad trying to move the Allahabad high court. During the day, the two were served lunch which had a potato-turnip dish with chana daal, roti and rice.
The convicts reached Dasna in Ghaziabad on Tuesday evening after being sentenced to four years in jail by the special CBI court. After all the documentation and frisking, Neera was allotted mahila cell number 1 — one of the two women barracks in Dasna. Chaturvedi was lodged at new prisoner barrack number 2. Through with the mandatory fingerprint impression, they were handed over convict uniforms: blue saree for women and a white kurta-pyjama for men. They were given two blankets each on request and escorted to their respective barracks.
The retired IAS officer was up early on Wednesday morning after what was described as a "restless long night" in her cell which she shares with seven other women convicts. After spending a few hours in her cell, she was escorted to the jail hospital for a check-up: both Yadav and Chaturvedi had complained of chest pain.
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