Johnson Cherian.
Karnataka Deputy Inspector General of Police D. Roopa has dropped another bombshell in her report to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) by claiming that she had reliable information of jailed AIADMK interim general secretary V.K. Sasikala visiting a house of Hosur MLA, near the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison in Bengaluru.
Detailing how Sasikala, who was convicted by the Supreme Court in a disproportionate assets case, enjoyed special facilities, Ms Roopa in the report submitted last Saturday to the ACB said, “There is reliable information that she sometimes goes to a house near the Central Jail that belongs to the Hosur MLA. This may be further ascertained by CCTV cameras placed at the entrance of the jail and the cameras placed in between gate 1 & gate 2 of the jail.”
Ms. Roopa, formerly DIG (Prisons), who first exposed the privileged treatment enjoyed by Sasikala such as exclusive cells for personal use, private space to meet visitors and specially prepared food, said the prison authorities went out of way to extend the special treatment without the approval of either the court or the State government.
In the report, a copy of which was accessed by The Hindu, Ms. Roopa said the prison authorities had misled the Home Minister and Home Secretary by furnishing false information on the facilities extended to the convict.
As DIG, Prisons, Ms. Roopa, on March 4, 2017, written to the Home Secretary that Sasikala was convicted in a disproportionate assets case which came under the category of “crime involving personal greed and moral degradation as stated in the prison rules and therefore, as per rules, she cannot be considered for Class 1 or Class A category.” However, she said, Sasikala “managed” to live the life of a Class-1 prisoner against the court order.
