Kanimozhi learning candle making in jail

Whenever DMK MP Kanimozhi comes out of Tihar Prisons, the literature loving leader will have acquired one more skill -- candle making.

New Delhi: Whenever DMK MP Kanimozhi
comes out of Tihar Prisons, the literature loving leader will
have acquired one more skill -- candle making.

During her past over one month stay in the women`s
cell at the high security jail, Kanimozhi has, in her spare
time, taken interest in the candle making unit and learnt how
to make candles from her co-inmates, sources at Tihar Prisons
said.
Candle making is one of the vocational courses
introduced by Tihar authorities to keep inmates connected to
the outside world through competition and skill enhancement.

A candle making unit exists in Jail number six which
houses women inmates. Made by the women prisoners, scented
candles are used inside the jail and also sold as jail factory
products.

Kanimozhi, along with Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar,
was sent to Tihar jail on May 20 after a special CBI court
rejected her bail plea and ordered her "forthwith" arrest in
in connection with the 2G spectrum scam.

Prison sources said the DMK Rajya Sabha member also
spends her leisure reading books.
Concerned over her security, authorities have
converted an office room inside the women`s prison into a cell
and kept her there away from other prisoners.

Even after her bail plea was rejected twice by the
courts, Kanimozhi was never found to be upset and behaved well
with all the people she came across inside the jail, the
sources said.

Her father DMK chief M Karunanidhi her mother, Rajathi
Ammal, along with others visited her yesterday. They had
brought many packets of Murukku, a popular snack for her.

Unlike her high profile neighbours, Kanimozhi has a
slew of people coming to meet her every day. DMK leaders are
lined up in front of Gate No 3 on Jail Road to visit her.

PTI

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