Sasikala paid ?2cr bribe for special jail facilities: Report
The DIG prison D Roopa has written a report wherein she has mentioned that AIADMK chief VK Sasikala had paid prison officials a bribe of ?2 crore to get special treatment in jail. She added that Sasikala has a separate kitchen in the prison, gets a special menu every day, and the food is cooked by special chefs.
VK Sasikala, the AIADMK chief, is getting special treatment in Bengaluru's Parappana Agrahara Central jail where she has been lodged after being convicted by the Supreme Court in a disproportionate assets case in February. In her report DIG prison D Roopa has said that Sasikala and her associates were getting special treatment inside the jail. The AIADMK boss has even managed to get herself a special kitchen in complete violation of jail rules.FROM INDIA TODAY MAGAZINE: The enigma of SasikalaThe explosive report further claims that Sasikala paid Rs 2 crore to jail officials to get special facilities. It also said that Karnataka Director General of Prisons (DGP) Satyanarayana Rao was one of the top officials who were paid money."Sasikala has given Rs 1 crore bribe to Rao and another Rs 1 crore was distributed among officials, including warden of the central jail where she is serving 4-year sentence in an illegal wealth case for allowing her special privileges," the report which the DIG has submitted to the state government said. "As a reward for bribing the prison authorities from Rao to jail warden, Sasikala gets special menu daily, cooked by special chefs in a special kitchen near the women's cell," Roopa is said to have mentioned in the report.Co-convicts Sasikala's sister-in-law Elavarasi and nephew VK Sudhakaran were also held guilty by a trial court in September 2014 and upheld by the Supreme Court on February 14 in the two-decade-old disproportionate assets case of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.  ALSO READ:Bengaluru jail rules violated for VVIP prisoner SasikalaVK Sasikala receives hate mails even in jail