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Sasikala returns to Bengaluru jail as Supreme Court trashes plea for time to surrender
AIADMK chief VK Sasikala on Wednesday returned to Bengaluru central jail after she surrendered before a court, a day after the Supreme Court restored her conviction in the Disproportionate Assets case and ordered she serve the remainder of her four-year prison term immediately.
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Sasikala turned up before Special Court Judge Ashwathnarayana after the apex court earlier in the day refused to entertain her plea in the DA case seeking more time to surrender for undergoing the jail term.
She left Chennai for Bengaluru in the neighbouring state of Karnataka by road shortly and went straight to the court housed in the central jail at Parappana Agrahara, 28 km from Hosur on the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border.
The judge also turned down Sasikala’s plea for two weeks more time to surrender and for home food. Sasikala was imprisoned after completion of court formalities and medical checkup, officials said. Sudhakaran and Elavarasi, whose conviction by the trial court in Bengaluru had been upheld by the Supreme Court, also surrendered before the court.
The judge also turned down Sasikala’s plea for two weeks more time to surrender and for home food. Four cars in the cavalcade of Sasikala were damaged soon after it arrived near the court premises, police said, adding, it was not immediately known who attacked the convoy. Senior advocate KTS Tulsi, appearing for Sasikala, said that the leader wanted some time to surrender as she has to manage her affairs.
PROSPECTIVE CM TO PRISONER NO. 9235
A television set, mattress, table fan, three sarees, Rs 50 per day and two cell mates — this is what VK Sasikala will be given at the Parappana Agrahara Central Jail where she will serve the remainder of her four-year jail term after being convicted by the Supreme Court in a corruption case.
Sources said Sasikala had requested to be lodged next to the cell where the late CM Jayalalithaa was briefly lodged in 2014. She had also reportedly requested for home-cooked food. Sources said her requests had been denied by the jail authorities.
Instead, Sasikala will spend her days in jail making candles and incense sticks and will earn Rs 50 a day for the work. Sundays, too, would be working for Sasikala, who is now prisoner number 9235. She would have to share her non-air conditioned cell with two other women inmates.
Sources said that Sasikala, who had hopes of becoming the CM, would get breakfast at 6.30 am, lunch at 11.30 am, tea at 4 pm and dinner at 6.30 pm.
‘MIGHTY VOW’ ON THE MARINA
AIADMK General Secretary VK Sasikala on Wednesday vowed to defeat “conspiracy and betrayal” before leaving for Bengaluru to surrender. At Jayalalithaa’s memorial she paid floral tributes and went around the burial site once before doing the unexpected. She prayed briefly and suddenly bent down and slammed the tomb thrice and muttered what the AIADMK Twitter page later described as “mighty vow” to defeat “conspiracy, betrayal and embarrassment.”
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