"Every prisoner is the same; she is not a VIP:" Delhi Court refuses special treatment to Chitra Ramkrishna in jail

A Delhi court on Monday remanded former National Stock Exchange (NSE) head Chitra Ramkrishna to judicial custody for 14 days in connection with the NSE co-location scam [CBI v. Sanjay Gupta & Ors ]..Special CBI Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal shot down requests made by Ramkrishna's counsel seeking special facilities in judicial custody like home cooked food, a prayer book and masks. The judge took exception to the expectation that rules would be changed for VIPs, and clarified that Ramkrishna was not one. "VIP prisoners want everything then every rule should be changed. Every prisoner is the same. She's not a VIP," the Court said..During the hearing, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) informed the Court that she had stopped cooperating with the agency. .Ramkrishna was arrested by the CBI for allegedly sharing confidential information relating to the NSE and was remanded to seven-day CBI custody on March 7. The special judge had rejected her anticipatory bail plea and noted that bail matters regarding economic offences have to be approached differently as they involve conspiracies that are deep-rooted towards losses of public funds..The Court had then taken note of the CBI's reply that Ramkrishna had not given any proper responses to its questions in the three days she was interrogated. Since co-accused Anand Subramanian was already under police remand, the CBI argued that questioning both of them would be needed to dig out the truth..The case stems from a February 11 order of SEBI that found that she indulged in financial misdeeds relating to fixation and frequent revision of compensation of Anand Subramanian in a disproportionate manner, in cahoots with whom she claimed to be a 'Siddha Purusha'..Ramkrishna’s bizarre claim of having been guided by a Siddha Purusha/ Yogi dwelling in the Himalayas in making her professional decisions did not find favour with the SEBI, which had barred her from associating with any market infrastructure institution or any intermediary registered with it for a period of three years.