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The Aam Aadmi Party plans to plead in court that a part of the Tihar Central Jail complex be declared as 'prison' to allow Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to gain access to video conferencing and other office facilities essential to run the Delhi government...
According to AAP insiders, the party's legal team is doing spadework to petition the court citing precedents when undertrials were allowed to operate their offices from inside Tihar jail...
"The most high-profile precedent is that of Sahara group's Subrata Roy who got permission from court to use office facility inside Tihar jail to negotiate sale of his luxury hotels in New York and London to raise his bail money..
As per Rule 1349 of the Jail Manual, only 10 facilities are extended to an undertrial prisoner - legal defence, interviews with lawyers or family members (for legal purposes), signing vakalatnamas, delegation of power of attorney, execution of will, essential religious necessities as per rules, applications to courts for legal aid at government cost as per provisions of law, other applications to courts, application to legal aid societies for free legal aid and such other facilities as are sanctioned by the government..
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