Sasikala Accused For Bribing Top Karnataka Cop For Undue Favors:- New allegations have been surfacing on the ousted AIADMK General Secretary and convict VK Sasikala Natarajan (59).
She is being accused of bribing Karnataka Director General of Prisons (DGP) Satyanarayana Rao and city central jail officials for undue favors on Wednesday.
A local news channel quoting from a report, which Deputy Inspector of Prisons (DIG) Roopa Moudgil submitted to the State government said that, “Sasikala has given Rs 1 crore bribe to Rao and another Rs 1 crore was distributed among officials, including warden of the central jail where she is serving 4-year sentence in an illegal wealth case for allowing her special privileges.”
To confirm the bribery and other charges, Roopa was not reachable, while Rao, however, denied them and accused Roopa of gross sub-ordination.
“I have served a memo to her (Roopa) seeking explanation and evidence to prove her wild allegations. She has not given any report to me or the government against me or other jail officials,” Rao said.
In a sensational revelation, Roopa said Sasikala was getting royal treatment in the women’s cell where she has been lodged since February 15 to serve her sentence. In September 2014, Sasikala’s sister-in-law Elavarasi and nephew VK Sudhakaran, the co-convicts in the case were also held guilty by a trial court. On February 14, the Supreme Court upheld the verdict in the two-decade-old disproportionate assets case of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.
“As a reward for bribing the prison authorities from Rao to jail warden, Sasikala gets special menu daily, cooked by special chefs in a special kitchen near the women’s cell,” Roopa is said to have mentioned in the report.
Roopa, a 2000 batch IPS officer is the first woman in the southern State to have been recently appointed DIG of the prisons department on June 23. The DIG, alleging massive irregularities and rampant corruption in the central jail on the city’s southern outskirts. She further added that through various means drugs were being distributed to the inmates, and special facilities were given to select prisoners.
“At least 18 of the 25 prisoners who were tested for taking drugs reported positive. From DGP to jail warden are involved in flouting the prison manual,” alleged Roopa in the report.
Mr Rao, refuting the allegations, said “how she found so many wrong things in three weeks of joining the department. What and how she could know of things that might have happened or not months ago as being aired quoting from her report?”
“I have asked her to meet me on Friday and hand over the so-called report from which a news channel is airing her views. Where was she when Chief Minister Siddaramaiah held a review meeting here on Monday? Ask her?” quipped an upset Rao.
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