Mumbai: Vasai court on Saturday, while sending TV actor Sheezan Khan to judicial custody, allowed his plea for home-cooked food and medicines. His plea to not cut his long hair has been allowed till Monday when the superintendent of Thane prison, where he is lodged, sends his report to the court.

His advocate’s plea for counselling and security and visitation rights for family and lawyers in prison will be as per the model prison manual, the court observed.

Khan (28), accused of abetment of suicide of his co-star Tunisha Sharma (20), has been in custody of Valiv police since December 25. Tunisha allegedly hanged herself in the washroom of Khan’s room in Bhajanlal Studios in Naigaon on December 24. The two were in a relationship while they acted in a serial, Ali Baba Dastaan-e-Kabul, that aired from August. The couple had broken up early December.

Tunisha’s mother Vanita had accused Khan of driving her daughter to suicide.

On Saturday, Sheezan’s advocate Shailendra Mishra submitted four applications before the court. Mishra said that Khan’s mental status is beyond anyone’s understanding and that he needs both counselling and special watch so that he does not do anything untoward. He said the actor, who has not seen a police station, forget being lodged in a jail, has been put through media trial already. The advocate spoke about a 19-year-old rape and kidnapping accused committing suicide by hanging inside the Taloja jail on Wednesday.

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Sheezan Khan, who is charged with allegedly abetting the suicide of his ex-girlfriend and co-actor Tunisha Sharma, was produced at the Vasai Killa court on Saturday and remanded to jail custody for 14 days. Khan’s lawyer Shailendra Mishra told the court that the allegations by Sharma’s mother Vanita and her uncle Pawan were false and baseless. Vanita had claimed that Khan had cheated on her daughter and even slapped her on sets. Mishra, however, claimed that Sharma had moved on from Khan, and was in a new relationship.

While informing the court about Khan suffering from asthma, Mishra requested the court to allow him to have home-cooked food and take necessary medication while in jail. Though the police demanded Khan’s custody for further investigation, the court, after hearing both arguments, sent him to judicial custody. The court also granted Khan’s family permission to meet him in jail along with his lawyer.

Speaking to mediapersons, Mishra later said, “Tunisha had a secret boyfriend. We have already submitted all proofs to the police and they are investigating it. My client is innocent and he should be released. We are trying to get him out of jail and will apply for bail. We are also holding a press conference on Monday and the truth will come out,”  he said, adding, “My client is also not safe in jail and is currently under trauma.”

In the investigations so far, the police learnt that Sharma had been suffering from anxiety and OCD disorder and was receiving treatment for the same. The break-up with Khan, the police suspect, had left her vulnerable.