![]() The inquiry committee report said Sasikala enjoyed free movement within the prison which was corroborated by video clips. Sasikala was provided five cells, despite no threat to her life as per intelligence reports, the report said. It also said there was separate visitors’ room for her and the corridor in the jail was barricaded for her. A pressure cooker and spices were found in her prison cell. The report, a copy of which is available with PTI, said Sasikala, a close aide of late Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa, was allowed to wear her personal clothes and cook. Kumar had submitted his report to the government on Novembut its contents were not made public. Sudhakaran and Elavarasi, all serving a 4-year jail term. Sasikala is lodged at Parappana Agrahara central prison here ever since her conviction by the Supreme Court in February 2017 in the disproportionate assets case along with two of her relatives, V.N. The issue had caused embarrassment to the then Congress government led by Siddaramaiah, which ordered the transfer of Roopa and Rao after both sparred in public. Sathyanarayana Rao, Roopa had said there was “talk” that Rs 2 crore had exchanged hands to give preferential treatment for Sasikala and there were allegations against the DGP also, a charge rejected by him. In her report submitted on July 12 to DGP (prisons) H.N. The then Siddaramaiah government had ordered an inquiry by Vinay Kumar to probe the allegations made by Roopa after the issue snowballed. People doubted perhaps but now the same thing has been said in the report (by the inquiry officer),” Roopa, presently IGP, Home Guards and Civil Defence, said.Īlso Read: Sasikala Bribing Jail Officials May Be Shocking, but It Is a Regular Occurrence at Tihar “Unfortunately my report was not taken on its face value. The IPS officer said it was because of her efforts and struggle that the report had become public through RTI route. “Whatever I had said in my report is the same thing and this was an independent inquiry committee… My stand is vindicated and I am happy for that,” she told reporters here. Reacting to it, Roopa said her stand had been vindicated and said this case could be one of the basis for prison reforms. Shobha, public relations officer of the home department. The report confirms that Sasikala was given special treatment in the jail,” he told PTI. “I have accessed the 295 pages report through an RTI query. Roopa’s claims in July 2017 that Sasikala was given preferential treatment and a separate kitchen functioned for her at the Parappana Agrahara Central Jail here, RTI activist Narasimha Murthy said. The 295-page report by retired IAS officer Vinay Kumar confirmed then DIG (Prisons) D. Sasikala was given special treatment in a prison here, where she is serving imprisonment in a corruption case, according to the report by an inquiry committee that went into allegations by a senior police official, an RTI query has revealed. ![]()
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