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Sasikala back in jail
AIADMK general secretary VK Sasikala, held guilty for corruption, on Wednesday returned to the Bengaluru jail as the battle for supremacy in the AIADMK continued in Tamil Nadu.
Infighting in AIADMK rages
Bengaluru/Chennai : AIADMK general secretary VK Sasikala, held guilty for corruption, on Wednesday returned to the Bengaluru jail as the battle for supremacy in the AIADMK continued in Tamil Nadu.
Sasikala, 59, was sent to a women's cell in the Central Jail soon after she reached Bengaluru in a convoy of cars from Chennai after her plea for more time to surrender was rejected by the Supreme Court.
A prison official told journalists that the long-time confidante of the late J Jayalalithaa, who was Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu when she passed away on December 5, is expected to make candles in jail.
Sasikala surrendered to the trial court set up in the prison along with her sister-in-law Elavarasi and nephew V N Sudhakaran, all of whom were held guilty along with the late Jayalalithaa by the apex court on Tuesday of having assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.
All four were lodged in the same prison for three weeks from September 27, 2014 after the trial court sentenced them. They later got bail from the Karnataka High Court.
Even at the prison, where police and AIADMK activists scuffled, Sasikala sought more time to serve the jail term but the judge rejected her request and told her to undergo a health check-up.
The trial court was set up in the jail complex because the civil court complex in Bengaluru is in a congested area and could have faced law and order issues due to the high-profile nature of the case.
In Chennai, Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao prepared to invite acting Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam as well as pro-Sasikala AIADMK leader E Palanisamy to find out who has majority support among party MLAs.
Before leaving Chennai, Sasikala visited the Marina Beach memorial of Jayalalithaa and AIADMK founder late M G Ramachandran's house at Ramavaram and paid her respects. At both places, hundreds of supporters gathered, most of them looking grim.
On Wednesday, Panneerselvam aides claimed he had the support of some 40 of the 135 AIADMK legislators but Palanisamy said he had adequate legislative backing to form a government.
