Sasikala to be released from Bengaluru prison on Wednesday

Bengaluru, Jan 27 : Late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa’s close aide, V.K. Sasikala will complete her four year prison term for corruption on Wednesday but having tested Covid positive on January 20, she may have to continue her treatment in a Bengaluru hospital.
According to the Bengaluru Jail authorities, Sasikala will be formally released on Wednesday. “All the required formalities pertaining to her release will be completed at the hospital itself on Wednesday as she has been quarantined due to Covid,” a prison official told IANS.
Sasikala tested positive on January 20 and was admitted to the Bowring hospital initially. In view of her critical condition, she was shifted to the ICU ward of Victoria Hospital.
Now that the symptoms have reduced substantially and her condition has become normal, she has been taken out of the ICU, the Victoria Hospital authorities said in a statement.
However, the hospital authorities have been monitoring her. Meanwhile, her sister-in-law J. Ilavarasi, who too is serving a jail term along with Sasikala in the corruption case and was found Covid-19 positive, was keeping well, the authorities said.
Victoria Hospital, where she is treated, said Sasikala is conscious, alert and well oriented. She is consuming food and she is also maintaining oxygen saturation 97 per cent on two litres of oxygen through a non-rebreather mask (NRBM), it added.