Sasikala surrenders before special court in Bengaluru: As it happened

Sasikala will be in jail for three years and about 11 months out of the four years sentence awarded by the trial court.

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 Bengaluru: VK Sasikala was on Wednesday sent to jail after she surrendered before a trial court here, a day after the Supreme Court restored her conviction in the two-decades-old disproportionate assets case.

Driving from Chennai straight to the court, 60-year-old Sasikala appeared before the special court judge Ashwathnarayana, as the Supreme Court refused to give her a breather rejecting her request for more time to surrender.

Travelling in the same car that Jayalalithaa used, Sasikala arrived at the central jail housed at Parappana Agrahara, close to Hosur on Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border, towards the evening amid tight security.

Sasikala's relatives VN Sudhakaran and Elavarasi, who were also convicted by the trial court, were also imprisoned after they surrendered and fulfilled court formalities.

She will be in jail for three years and about 11 months out of the four years sentence awarded by the trial court.

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