Sukesh Chandrasekhar, who is accused in a Rs 200 crore cheating case involving the wife of a former Fortis Healthcare promoter, has gone on a hunger strike protesting against the alleged abuse by a Mandoli jail Superintendent Dhananjay Rawat ‘under the guise of his uniform’.

Sukesh’s advocate Anant Malik said, “My client has been on a hunger strike for the past two days. He is being harassed by Superintendent Dhananjay Rawat in the Mandoli jail with the assistance of Deputy Superintendent RN Meena.”

Malik on behalf of his client wrote to the prison officials regarding the ‘harrasment and torture’ of Sukesh by Rawat. He said, “Let me highlight the orders of the Hon’ble Courts wherein directions have been passed to the Jail Superintendent concerned to not harass or torture my client, however all in vain as Dhanajay Rawat till this very moment continues under the guise of his uniform to harass, torture, abuse, my client with the aid and assistance of Deputy Superintendent RN Meena.”

Claiming a connection with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), he said, “He (Dhananjay Rawat) further has used the name of the Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Satyendra Jain and is giving out open warnings to my client to retract statements given to the High Powered Committee against them and other jail officials.”

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has recently given a nod for CBI inquiry in the case of Satyendra Jain. “It seems he (Dhananjay Rawat), at the behest of AAP, is carrying out the work of destruction of evidence, a fact which I shall also be bringing to the notice of CBI who have been granted sanction by the MHA to investigate the complaint as filed against Satyendra Jain and jail officials by my client and also the the Hon’ble LG,” he said.

Further, he said that a fresh complaint will be filed about the latest developments to the CBI about ‘how Mr.Dhanajay Rawat is being a puppet of his political gurus Kejriwal and Jain, leaving no stone unturned to harass, torture and humiliate Sukesh’.

Citing the order of the Trial Court to carry out an independent inquiry on the complaint of Sukesh, he said that he was in ‘utter shock and dismay’ to learn that ‘the persons against whom the enquiry was to be conducted are being directed to conduct the said enquiry themselves’.

“There cannot be any more brazen violation of law than this, despite there being specific directions in this regard to superior officials i.e. Dhananjay Rawat has been marked an enquiry in which the main allegations are against him. He is the umpire in a match where he should have been a suspended player. But the Delhi jails always choose to outdo themselves as far as lawlessness is concerned, the sole reason that the competent authorities have sanctioned approvals for prosecution the Ex Jail Minister, Jail officials etc,” he alleged. 

He also claimed that Rawat spoke to the client in a ‘very abusive tone’, saying “Kya Ukhaad liya tune high court jaakey, Jail toh humari hai aur mera koi kuch nai bigaad sakta” (What difference have you made by going to the High Court? The jail is ours and no one can do any harm to me.) He also claimed that both of the jail officials are trying to destroy evidence available ‘against Rawat’s political masters’ by putting pressure on his client.