Karnataka prison authorities have granted 15-days parole to jailed AIADMK leader VK Sasikala on Tuesday to attend the last rites of her husband Maruthappa Natarajan who died in a hospital in Chennai on Tuesday. Natarajan died at the age of 75 has played a major role in Tamil Nadu politics as a backroom artist.
Sasikala is currently serving a four-year imprisonment and is lodged in high security central prison at Parappana Agrahara at the outskirts of IT city Bengaluru in a disproportionate assets case. The prison authorities have given 15 days emergency parole to Sasikala on Tuesday morning include two days of travelling to and from Tanjavur in Tamil Nadu where the final rites of Natarajan is to take place.
The parole was sanctioned after her advocates filed an application following her husband’s demise. Sasikala left the Central Prisons on Tuesday noon by road and is expected to reach Tanjavur by night. As per the parole Sasikala has been instructed not to take part in any political activity or interact with her supporters or the media.
She has also been instructed not to travel anywhere outside Arulananda Nagar in Tanjavur and return back to the prison by April 3.