Sasikala to be released from Bengaluru Prison, today; security beefed up
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa's close aide, VK Sasikala will be released from the Bengaluru Prison today, as she completes her four year prison term for corruption.
Though she is presently undergoing treatment for post Covid complications at Victoria hospital in Bengaluru, she islikely to be shifted to a private hospital for further treatment, as her health condition has notably improved.
Her supporters and relatives have gathered in front of the hospital awaiting her release. Her release comes at a time when Tamil Nadu is gearing up for assembly elections.
According to prison authorities, she will be formally released today. "All the required formalities pertaining to her release will be completed at the hospital itself on Wednesday as she has been quarantined due to Covid," a prison official told IANS.
MLA T T V Dhinakaran, Sasikala's nephew and Founder of Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) had on Monday said a decision on her discharge would be taken based on her health condition and doctors advice.
Sasikala was sentenced to four years imprisonment in February 2017 in the Rs 66 crore disproportionate assets case along with her sister-in-law J Ilavarasi and and Jayalalithaa's foster son V N Sudhakaran.
In September 2013, a special court convicted Jayalalithaa toimprisonment of four years. She was also slapped with a Rs 100 crore fine and forced to step down, as the CM. The three co-accused in the case were Sasikala, V.N. Sudhakaran, and Ilavarasi, fined Rs 10 crore each.
Later, Jayalalithaa challenged the conviction in the Karnataka High Court, which acquitted her of all charges. But in 2017, the Supreme Court upheld the special court verdict convicting all four of them. Charges against Jayalalithaa were abated in view of her death on December 5, 2016.
Though she is presently undergoing treatment for post Covid complications at Victoria hospital in Bengaluru, she islikely to be shifted to a private hospital for further treatment, as her health condition has notably improved.
Her supporters and relatives have gathered in front of the hospital awaiting her release. Her release comes at a time when Tamil Nadu is gearing up for assembly elections.
According to prison authorities, she will be formally released today. "All the required formalities pertaining to her release will be completed at the hospital itself on Wednesday as she has been quarantined due to Covid," a prison official told IANS.
MLA T T V Dhinakaran, Sasikala's nephew and Founder of Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) had on Monday said a decision on her discharge would be taken based on her health condition and doctors advice.
Sasikala was sentenced to four years imprisonment in February 2017 in the Rs 66 crore disproportionate assets case along with her sister-in-law J Ilavarasi and and Jayalalithaa's foster son V N Sudhakaran.
In September 2013, a special court convicted Jayalalithaa toimprisonment of four years. She was also slapped with a Rs 100 crore fine and forced to step down, as the CM. The three co-accused in the case were Sasikala, V.N. Sudhakaran, and Ilavarasi, fined Rs 10 crore each.
Later, Jayalalithaa challenged the conviction in the Karnataka High Court, which acquitted her of all charges. But in 2017, the Supreme Court upheld the special court verdict convicting all four of them. Charges against Jayalalithaa were abated in view of her death on December 5, 2016.