Ashwini Gupta was locked up repeatedly, beaten in jail until his flesh split open and lost one of his lungs to tuberculosis after being put in the same cell as an infected prisoner, according to Rajat Gupta. Gupta said his father was a political prisoner during India’s fight for independence from colonial ruler Britain. Rajaratnam was locked up in the same higher security prison as Gupta after being convicted of securities fraud and conspiracy and the two met and even played cards and chess together there. Gupta, who was found guilty by a New York jury of providing boardroom secrets he learned at Goldman to hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, still insists he is innocent of the charges under which he was convicted.

He says it was only by persuading guards not to take away his copy of the ancient Hindu holy book, the Bhagavad Gita, with its teachings on ethical dilemmas and the path to salvation, that helped keep him sane. I felt more like a political prisoner,” Gupta says in the book of his relatively harsh treatment. “I followed the rules as best I could, but I didn’t walk around like a repentant criminal. Bureau of Prisons declined to comment on Gupta’s claims. India-born Gupta, now 70, disclosed his ordeal in his autobiography, Mind Without Fear, which was published this week, and in an interview with Reuters in New Delhi.Ī representative of the U.S. Altogether, he was locked up for 19 months before being released in January 2016.

There he joined more violent offenders for the final eight months of his time in jail. And after that, Gupta said, he was transferred to a higher security federal prison on an adjoining site because prison officers decided he wasn’t suitable for a camp-type lockup because of his “poor living skills”. The first time was only for a week but the second time he had to spend seven weeks there. Gupta, who ran the global management consultants McKinsey for nine years and was on the board of investment bank Goldman Sachs, said he was twice placed in a “special housing unit” – a euphemism for solitary confinement - at the Devens Correctional Facility in Ayer, Massachusetts. FILE PHOTO: Rajat Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Procter & Gamble board member, arrives at Manhattan Federal Court in New York, June 4, 2012.

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