Sasikala gets parole, moves to Chennai to meet ailing husband

Restrictions: No political activity, no interaction with media, can only move between home and hospital

V K Sasikala, close aide of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, has been granted five-day emergency parole to meet her husband M Natarajan, who recently had a dual organ transplant in a Chennai hospital. Sasikala was sentenced for four years in prison in a 20-year-old disproportionate asset case and has been in jail in Bengaluru since February, 2017.

While the court had earlier rejected a similar parole application filed this week, it granted the application on Friday for a period of four days from October 7 to 11, subject to various conditions.

On Friday afternoon, Sasikala, who was appointed as