Karnataka Prisons Department rejects Sasikala's parole application to visit ailing husband

On Tuesday, the Karnataka Prisons department rejected Sasikala’s parole application to visit her ailing husband.  The prison authorities were considering a plea by jailed AIADMK leader V K Sasikala to release her on parole for 15 days to meet her ailing husband, who is awaiting a liver transplant at a Chennai hospital.

Superintendent Somashekar cited inadequacies in application, sought more details and asked her counsel to file fresh application. 
 

Superintendent Somashekar cites inadequacies in application, seeks more details and affidavits and asks counsel to make fresh application

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"Yesterday, we received an application from Sasikala, urging us to release her on a 15-day parole. She has said that her husband is unwell and admitted in a hospital in Chennai. Sasikala's (60) husband M Natarajan (74) is admitted in the liver intensive care unit of a corporate hospital since last month following a kidney and liver failure.

He is awaiting a deceased donor liver transplantation and a kidney transplantation, according to doctors. Sasikala is in jail here since February after the Supreme Court upheld her conviction by a special court in a disproportionate assets case.

Along with Sasikala, her relatives Ilavarasi and V N Sudhakaran are also serving a four-year jail term. Sasikala's nephew and sidelined AIADMK leader T T V Dhinakaran had also said in Chennai yesterday that she had applied for a 15-day parole to meet her ailing husband.