Ousted All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) leader VK Sasikala’s parole plea application to meet her estranged ailing husband Natarajan has been rejected by Karnataka jail authorities on technical grounds on Tuesday. Sasikala, who is serving a jail term after being convicted in a disproportionate assets case at the high security Parappana Agrahara prison on the outskirts of Bengaluru has sought the parole to meet her husband who is in a Chennai hospital.
In a late night decision the prison authorities have rejected her parole plea for inadequate information. However, the authorities have rejected her plea as it was not backed by a legally approved health certificate stating that her husband was unwell. According to Sasikala’s lawyers she would be filing another plea for parole with all the supporting documents sought by the prison authorities.
According to sources, Sasikala’s husband has been hospitalised in Chennai for the last nine months due to kidney and liver ailment.
A source confirmed that Jail Superintendent Somashekhar has rejected her parole plea citing inadequacies and sought more details and affidavits. He has also asked them to make a fresh plea.
Sasikala has been lodged in Bengaluru high security prison since February 2017. 74-year-old Natarajan a former Government PRO has expressed his willingness to see Sasikala. Though Sasikala and Natarajan had been living separately since 1991, he had accompanied her when she surrendered before the prison authorities in Bengaluru. According sources her advocated will submit another plea with all the documents and expecting to get a 15 day parole by October 5.