Bengaluru: Prison authorities in Karnataka on Tuesday rejected on “technical grounds” the parole plea of jailed AIADMK leader V K Sasikala, so that she can meet her ailing husband who is awaiting a liver transplant at a Chennai hospital. “The paperwork was not done properly due to which the application has been rejected,” top sources in the government told PTI.
Sasikala can file a fresh application for parole, the official sources said. She had applied for a 15-day parole on Monday, seeking temporary release to attend to her ailing husband, M Natarajan (74), who is in the liver intensive care unit of a corporate hospital since last month following kidney and liver failure.
According to doctors, he is awaiting transplantation of a deceased donor’s liver and a kidney. The jail superintendent had said earlier that the legal cell was considering her plea. Sasikala has been in jail here since February after the Supreme Court upheld her conviction by a special court in a disproportionate assets case. Her relatives Ilavarasi and V N Sudhakaran are also serving four-year jail terms.
Sasikala’s nephew and sidelined AIADMK leader T T V Dhinakaran had also said in Chennai on Monday that she had applied for a 15-day parole to meet her ailing husband.
