Sasikala breaks 70-day vow of silence

Sasikala who has been behind bars for the past one year, began her vow of silence on December 5, the first anniversary of former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa’s death.

One of her lawyers said, “She has ended the vow. It is her personal matter and has nothing to do with the expected political turmoil after the court verdict in the 18 MLAs disqualification case or the Arumughaswamy’s Commission of Enquiry probing into the hospitalisation and death of Jayalalithaa, which has summoned her.” 

In a follow-up to the searches made in her rooms at Jayalalithaa’s Poes Garden home, Veda Nilayam in November last, I-T officials are also waiting to interrogate her. Earlier, when she was summoned in this regard, she had conveyed through her advocate that she would not be able to speak as she was on a vow of silence.