Chennai, Oct 6: Jailed AIADMK leader VK Sasikala was granted parole for five days on Friday to meet her ailing husband Natarajan who recently underwent a liver and kidney transplant.
Sasikala had sought parole for 15 days to meet her 74-year-old estranged husband who was a bureaucrat in the Tamil Nadu government during Jayalalithaa's earlier tenures.
Natarajan – who joined AIADMK when MGR was alive – along with other members of the so-called “Mannargudi Mafia” was banished by Jayalalithaa from all centres of power and her Poes Garden residence in 2011.
Sasikala managed to return to Jayalalithaa’s good books after publicly distancing herself from Natarajan and his family.
A confidante of late Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa, Sasikala, 60, is serving a four-year jail term in Bengaluru since February 15 after the Supreme Court upheld her conviction in a corruption case.
Co-convicts Elavarasi and VN Sudhakaran, Sasikala's sister-in-law and nephew, are also serving their sentence but had not applied for parole.
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