Illegal facilities in Bengaluru prison: ACB files chargesheet against Sasikala, two senior prison officers
The Hindu
ACB informs Karnataka High Court that chargesheet was filed on January 7, 2022
The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB), Bengaluru has filed a chargesheet against six persons, including two senior prison officials of Karnataka and V.K. Sasikala, a close aide of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, in a corruption case of illegally providing preferential facilities when Sasikala was lodged in the Central prison in Bengaluru while she was serving a sentence in a corruption case against Jayalalithaa.
A submission about filling of the chargesheet was made before a division bench comprising Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and Justice Suraj Govindaraj on February 2 during the hearing of a PIL petition filed by K.S. Gita, a 65-year-old social worker and educationist from Chennai.