Ex-AIADMK Leader VK Sasikala To Be Freed Today After 4 Years In Jail A former aide of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, Ms Sasikala, however, will remain in the hospital as she is being treated for the coronavirus infection.
Updated: January 27, 2021 9:14 am IST
VK Sasikala had contracted the virus on January 20 (File)
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Sasikala is a former aide of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha
She will, however, remain in the hospital
Chennai:
Former AIADMK leader VK Sasikala will be freed today from Bengaluru s Parappana Agrahara Prison after spending four years in jail in a corruption case. Ms Sasikala, a former aide of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, will remain in the hospital as she is being treated for the coronavirus infection.
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Sasikala Natarajan.(File Photo: IANS)
Bengaluru–Late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa’s key aide V.K. Sasikala, who is on the verge of finishing her jail term for corruption, tested Covid positive on Thursday night.
The Victoria Hospital’s second bulletin said that the second RT-PCR test carried out on Thursday confirmed that she is Covid positive.
According to the first bulletin that was released in the evening, she had developed a “severe chest infection and very high sugar levels”.
The imprisoned Tamil Nadu leader was referred from Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital with a diagnosis of type II diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypothyroidism, urinary tract infection (UTI) and suspected Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI).