Bengaluru: In what could substantiate the allegations of DIG D. Roopa Moudgil, photos of jailed AIADMK leader V.K. Sasikala given special privileges in Parappana Agrahara Central Jail were released to the media on Monday.
It is alleged that five rooms have been allotted to her flouting rules. In another startling bit of information, it is alleged that a woman cook, who was working at Poes Garden, has been illegally kept with Sasikala to cook food for her.
A set of photos showing the five rooms were released to the media and it is alleged that the rooms are used by Sasikala and Ilavarasi. Two rooms are allegedly used as bedrooms, one for cooking, one for meeting visitors and the other for stocking their belongings.
The pictures also reveal that the passage in front of these rooms is barricaded to prevent other inmates from entering the area and thereby disturbing these high-profile prisoners’ privacy. It is also seen in the photos that the grills on the parapet of the passage are covered using cloth, so that no others could see what’s happening there from outside.
Meanwhile, highly placed sources said that a woman cook, who was earlier working at Poes Garden when former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa was alive, has been illegally made to stay with Sasikala in one of the five rooms. “This is a gross violation of the prison rules and the first time we have come across such a violation. The prison staffers are bribed heavily for this and that is why these irregularities have never been revealed to the outside world,” a senior officer said.
It is also alleged that visitors are given access to Sasikala’s room directly, which is again a violation of norms. “As per rules, the inmates should come to the interview rooms and meet the visitors, that too for a very limited time. In Sasikala’s case, the person is visiting her by taking appointment in someone else’s name as there are restrictions on multiple visits by a single person. Also, they write in the register that they have come to meet Ilavarasi or V.N. Sudhakaran. But they will enter the prison, that too the women’s barrack and meet Sasikala and have political meetings with her for hours together,” the officer added.
