Vijay Mallya will be lodged in a high-security cell in Barrack number 12 at the infamous Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai, the government has conveyed to the U.K. Crown Prosecution Services.
The government was responding to questions from the U.K. government on where Mr Mallya would be held and the prison conditions he would be subjected to if India’s extradition request of February 2017 is granted.
In one of the communications, the government makes an obvious effort to convince the UK CPS that the narrative in Gregory David Roberts’ novel ‘Shantaram’ about Arthur Road Jail is “pure fiction” and not an autobiography.
“It is a tale of imagination, None of these incidents has ever taken place at the Arthur Road Jail in the past four decades,” the government assures. It adds that Mr Mallya would be held in “that part of Arthur Jail which is unique.”
The U.K. government’s advisory on Mr Mallya’s prison conditions, in case he is extradited, contained a slew of questions, including whether the businessman would be “guaranteed a minimum three so. m. of personal space”; would he be provided with a clean mattress and even a query on whether there is adequate drinking water supply.
The correspondence is annexed to a status report filed by the Ministry of Home Affairs in the Supreme Court. The hearing in the Mallya case is scheduled for July 14.
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