Authorities at the high-security Tihar Jail had a busy weekend as they completed the white-washing of a barrack in a cell block for VIPs where Shibu Soren was taken on Tuesday after he was given a life-term by a Delhi court.
The 65-year-old Soren, who was convicted for conspiring to kill his secretary Shashi Nath Jha and given life imprisonment, arrived in the jail with four others found guilty for the same crime on Tuesday evening after a prolonged day at the Tis Hazari court complex.
The prison authorities, anticipating his sentencing, had white-washed Barrack No. 2 in jail number 4, where VIP prisoners are kept.
Soren, also known within his Jharkhand Mukti Morcha party as Guruji, will have the company of another Lok Sabha member of Parliament Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, who is being held in the jail after being arrested for allegedly murdering Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Ajit Sarkar in 1998.