Sasikala special treatment row: Prison chief recommends whistleblower DIG's transfer

Bengaluru: Following serious allegations by a subordinate officer against him, the DGP and IGP of Prisons, H. N. Sathyanarayana Rao, has recommended the state government shunt her out of the prisons department in the best interest of the department.

Sources said that forwarding DIG (Prisons) D. Roopa Moudgil's report on the alleged irregularities at Parappana Agrahara central prison and corruption charges against himself and other officers, Mr. Rao wrote to the government that the allegations made by the DIG were totally baseless and she had not given any evidence to prove her allegations.

Further, he has also reportedly pressed for a free and fair probe into all the allegations made by Mrs. Roopa against him and other officials. However, when DC tried to get in touch with Mr. Rao for his comments on the same, he was not available.

Meanwhile, unconfirmed sources said that the government was contemplating to send Mr. Rao, who is due for retirement this month end, on compulsory leave to avoid further damage to the government's image.