LUCKNOW, June 4 -- Three staffers at the Lalitpur district jail were suspended for providing VVIP facilities to former Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Rizwan Zaheer, who has been in prison for more than three years after being accused of conspiracy in a murder case, senior jail administration officials confirmed on Tuesday.

The jail officials said several banned items such as a branded mattress, pillows, a battery-operated fan, a packet of ghee, pickles, a tiffin box, oil, soap, shampoo and cream, along with Rs.30,000 in cash, were recovered from the barrack of the former MP during a surprise inspection by a team of District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) on Sunday. DLSA secretary Mayanl Jaiswal objected to the recoveries and sought an explanat...