Darshan pleads with HC for home-cooked food

Bengaluru, NT Bureau: Kannada film actor Darshan who was arrested in connection with a murder recently, has filed a petition in the Karnataka High Court seeking directions to the prison authorities to permit him to have access to home-cooked food, clothing, bedding and books, among other things in the prison.

Earlier, it had been claimed that the prison authorities had refused his request to access food and other items from his family members on the reason that they cannot allow food from outside in the absence of an order from a court even though Section 30 of the Karnataka Prisons Act, 1963, allowing undertrial prisoners to receive these materials from their private sources.

The actor in his petition claimed that he is suffering from diarrhoea as he is unable to digest the food provided in the prison and that the doctors in the prison had diagnosed his health problem as food poisoning. The petitioner also stated that he has lost several kilograms of body weight in the process.