Harminder Singh Mintoo (file photo)
Khalistani militant Mintoo on hunger strike inside jail
Chandigarh, January 6, 2018: Khalistani militant and Nabha jailbreak accused Harminder Singh Mintoo has started hunger strike inside jail premises.
His counsel Jaspal Singh Manjhpur told babushahi.com that Mintoo shared this development with him during his court appearance in Ludhiana through video conferencing on Saturday.
He is lodged in Central Jail, Patiala.
Manjhpur also quoted Mintoo as alleging that certain jail officials had demanded bribe of Rs 2 lakh from him in exchange of shifting him out of the dark cell where he was being kept.
According to Manjhpur, Mintoo also alleged that he was not being allowed to come out of the cell during the ongoing harsh winter spell. Being heart patient, this was posing survival problems to him. Despite medical advice, the jail authorities were allegedly not getting him examined at PGI for treatment.