Sasikala was provided five cells, despite no threat to her life as per intelligence reports, the report said. It also said there was separate visitors’ room for her and the corridor in the jail was barricaded for her. A pressure cooker and spices were found in her prison cell. The report, a copy of which is available with PTI, said Sasikala, close aide of late Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa, was allowed to wear her personal clothes and cook.
Kumar had submitted his report to the government on 17 November, 2017 but its contents were not made public. Sasikala is lodged at Parappana Agrahara central prison in Bengaluru ever since her conviction by the Supreme Court in February, 2017 in the disproportionate assets case along with her two relatives VN Sudhakaran and Elavarasi, all serving a four-year jail term. The issue had caused embarrassment to the then Congress government led by Siddaramaiah which ordered the transfer of Roopa and Rao after both sparred in public. In her report submitted on 12 July to DGP (Prisons) HN Sathyanarayana Rao, Roopa had said there was “a talk” that Rs 2 crore had exchanged hands to give preferential treatment for Sasikala and there were allegations against him also, charge rejected by him. The then Siddaramaiah government had ordered an inquiry by Vinay Kumar to probe the allegations made by Roopa after the issue snowballed. People doubted perhaps but now same thing has been said in the report (by the inquiry officer),” Roopa, presently IGP, Home Guards and Civil Defence, said. “Unfortunately my report was not taken on its face value.
The IPS officer said it was because of her efforts and struggle that the report had become public through RTI route. “Whatever I had said in my report is the same thing and this was an independent inquiry committee… My stand is vindicated and I am happy for that,” she told reporters in Bengaluru. Reacting to it, Roopa said her stand had been vindicated and said this case could be one of the basis for prison reforms.
The reply was furnished by MR Shobha, Public Relations Officer of the Home Department. The report confirms that Sasikala was given special treatment in the jail,” he told.įile image of AIADMK leader VK Sasikala. “I have accessed the 295 pages report through an RTI query. The 295-page report by retired IAS officer Vinay Kumar confirmed then DIG (Prisons) D Roopa’s claims in July 2017 that Sasikala was given preferential treatment and a separate kitchen functioned for her at the Parappana Agrahara Central Jail here, RTI activist Narasimha Murthy said. Bengaluru: Ousted AIADMK leader VK Sasikala was given special treatment in a prison in Bengaluru, where she is serving imprisonment in a corruption case, according to the report by an inquiry committee that went into allegations by a senior police official, an RTI query has revealed.
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