Belagavi: Having reduced AIADMK leader, V Sasikala to an ordinary prisoner by scrapping all the additional facilities she was enjoying at the Parapanna Agrahara prison in Bengaluru, the state government now reportedly plans to order an inquiry into allegations that she paid Rs 2 crore in bribes to the top brass of the police in the prisons department to make her life comfortable in jail.
While the government has received the report of a committee headed by former IAS officer, Vinaykumar, it has only looked into the special privileges enjoyed by Sasikala and other 'influential' inmates and has reportedly found no material evidence to prove that bribes were given to jail officials. The government could therefore take a call on ordering another inquiry specifically into the bribing allegations following the Belagavi session of the state legislature, according to highly placed sources.
With all privileges enjoyed by the AIADMK leader and her friend, Ilavarasi withdrawn, the two are now lodged in separate cells and are expected to wear the cotton white sari worn by other women prisoners and eat jail food, they reveal. Until now they were able to get food of their choice prepared in a separate kitchen allegedly with the connivance of jail staff.
"In future no inmate, including Ms Sasikala will get VVIP treatment. She will remain an ordinary jailbird till she completes her sentence and a cap has been put on the number of visitors she can receive," sources added.
The Tamil Nadu politician is said to have been shifted to the first floor of the central jail from the second and her movements within the barracks, restricted.
"The Home department has decided not to allow film shooting inside the Parappana Agrahara prison for security reasons and brakes have been put on all illegal activities like smuggling of drugs, beedis and cigarettes into the jail. The government is ready to implement recommendations of the Vinaykumar Committee report in toto," sources said.
