Sasikala expected to make candles in jail, has to share her cell, will get normal food

Bengaluru/Chennai: VK Sasikala, held guilty for corruption, on Wednesday returned to the Bengaluru jail as the battle for supremacy in the AIADMK continued in Tamil Nadu.

Sasikala, 59, was sent to a women's cell in the central jail soon after she reached Bengaluru in a convoy of cars from Chennai after her plea for more time to surrender was rejected by the Supreme Court.

Sasikala surrendered to the trial court set up in the prison along with her sister-in-law Elavarasi and nephew VN Sudhakaran, all of whom were held guilty along with the late Jayalalithaa by the apex court on Tuesday of having assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.

Following are some facts regarding her jail term:

- A prison official told journalists that the long-time confidante of the late J Jayalalithaa is expected to make candles in jail, as per IANS.

- Sasikala will be in jail for three years and about 11 months out of the four years sentence awarded by the trial court, DG (Prisons) Sathyanarayana Rao told PTI.

- Sasikala and Elavarasi would share a small cell in women's block in the jail, Rao said.

- He said Sasikala would get normal food, not home food, but it would be according to the doctor's advice.

- In the Parappana Agrahara Central Jail​ Saswikala will get a television set, mattress, table fan, three sarees and Rs 50 per day, as per News18.

- Sundays, too, would be working for Sasikala, News18 quoted sources as saying.