Sasikala’s Jail Term Over, Free To Walk
- 27-Jan-2021
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VK Sasikala, the mercurial aide of the late AIADMK icon and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa will be a free person on Wednesday after completing her four-year jail term in a corruption case. However, Sasikala, who has tested positive for coronavirus, will continue to be treated for the infection.
According to prison authorities, the former aide of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, will be formally released tomorrow. ".. all the formalities pertaining to her release will be completed tomorrow at the hospital itself.
On January 20, Sasikala was tested for the novel coronavirus at Bengaluru's Victoria Hospital but one RT-PCR test came back negative while the other found the expelled AIADMK leader to be positive for the virus. Sasikala is being treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Victoria Hospital.
Sasikala was sentenced to four years imprisonment in February 2017 in the Rs 66 crore disproportionate assets case aloing with her sister-in-law J Ilavarasi and and Jayalalithaa''s foster son V N Sudhakaran. According to a hospital bulletin, Sasikala is now doing well. "She is asymptomatic, conscious alert and well oriented. She is being continuously monitored."
