lucknow if you thought life in prison was confined to a thickwalled cell with a lone ventilator to provide fresh air to breathe and halfburnt chappatis with a bowl full of watery dal to eat think again for life in prison is anything but this for mafiaturnedpolitician amarmani tripathi who is presently lodged at lucknow district jail at least this is what the fellow undertrails have to say about their high profile jail mate his prison cell spreads over the entire quarantine barrack where he is the only inmate lodged if inmates at lucknow district jail are to be believed amarmani has a room cooler to help cool his heels practically and a cushioned mattress to sleep on for meals he can choose from the menu of citys best restaurants in case he wishes to change taste from the homecooked food delivered to him steaming hot jailer lucknow district jail sn dwivedi though denied that amarmani was being given any extra or undue privileges inside his prison cell he admitted that the mla was lodged in quarantine barrack all alone that is merely because he is a sitting mla clarifies the jailer but markande chand a former cabinet minister who was in jail till recently was not allowed any such status to this dwivedi says the category is granted by the district administration and not the jail authorities it is not only the quarantine barrack status of amarmani that appears out of place he has a brand new stereo to play his favourite numbers and a battery of attendants comprising petty criminals deputed by the jail staff to take care of their vip inmate at his beck and call to take care of his massage and other chores like escorting visitors to his barrack from the gates and keeping his toilet and bathroom clean among other such things any laxity on the part of the jail staff is taken care of by the regular visits of ministers in the state cabinet and other political heavyweights who regularly walk in to reassert their loyalties to this criminalturnedpolitician who has nearly two dozen criminal cases lodged against him with the state police and in case he still desires to reach out to the any particular person outside the prison compound he has cellphones to use at will such a state of affairs at lucknow district jail may appear to be something extremely shocking for those who are ignorant of amarmanis political clout but for the investigators from the central bureau of investigations cbi the agency probing the madhumita murder case it is nothing new some of these sleuths themselves witness the manner in which amarmani lived in lucknow district jail after his arrest in the murder case presently lodged at lucknow district jail this sitting samajwadi party sp mla landed behind bars on september 28 last after the supreme court scrapped his bail granted in madhumita murder case by the allahabad high court not only was he openly using his cellphones before