<p>Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, serving a one-year term in Patiala central prison in a 1988 road rage death case, is learnt to have complained of knee pain, said sources on Saturday.</p>.<p>An orthopedic surgeon examined the cricketer-turned-politician inside the jail and advised him to reduce weight, they said.</p>.<p>Sidhu, who sleeps on the floor in his barrack, finds it difficult to get up, they further said.</p>.<p>Sidhu has also been advised to sleep on the bed and not on the floor, sources said.</p>.<p>The jail administration has provided a hard board bed to Sidhu following the doctor's advice, sources added.</p>.<p>The 58-year-old Congress leader suffers from medical conditions like embolism and has a liver ailment. In 2015, Sidhu also underwent treatment for acute deep vein thrombosis (DVT) at a hospital in Delhi.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, Punjabi singer Daler Mehndi shared Sidhu's barrack number 10 at the prison.</p>.<p>Mehndi was sent to the jail after a Patiala court on Thursday upheld the two-year-sentence of the Punjabi pop-singer in a 2003 human trafficking case.</p>.<p>The court had dismissed Mehndi's appeal against the 2018 order of the trial court in the 2003 human trafficking case.</p>.<p>Senior Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia is also lodged in the Patiala central jail in a drugs case.</p>
<p>Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, serving a one-year term in Patiala central prison in a 1988 road rage death case, is learnt to have complained of knee pain, said sources on Saturday.</p>.<p>An orthopedic surgeon examined the cricketer-turned-politician inside the jail and advised him to reduce weight, they said.</p>.<p>Sidhu, who sleeps on the floor in his barrack, finds it difficult to get up, they further said.</p>.<p>Sidhu has also been advised to sleep on the bed and not on the floor, sources said.</p>.<p>The jail administration has provided a hard board bed to Sidhu following the doctor's advice, sources added.</p>.<p>The 58-year-old Congress leader suffers from medical conditions like embolism and has a liver ailment. In 2015, Sidhu also underwent treatment for acute deep vein thrombosis (DVT) at a hospital in Delhi.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, Punjabi singer Daler Mehndi shared Sidhu's barrack number 10 at the prison.</p>.<p>Mehndi was sent to the jail after a Patiala court on Thursday upheld the two-year-sentence of the Punjabi pop-singer in a 2003 human trafficking case.</p>.<p>The court had dismissed Mehndi's appeal against the 2018 order of the trial court in the 2003 human trafficking case.</p>.<p>Senior Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia is also lodged in the Patiala central jail in a drugs case.</p>