CHENNAI: AIADMK General Secretary V.K. Sasikala on Wednesday headed for Bengaluru as the Supreme Court rejected her plea seeking more time to surrender after it upheld her conviction in a disproportionate assets case.
Prior to leaving for Bengaluru, Sasikala went straight to her friend and former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa's burial site on Marina Beach.
She paid floral tributes to Jayalalithaa. Then she went around the burial site once, muttered something, bent down and tapped on the tomb thrice, She spent 10 minutes at the memorial. Her convoy then went to late chief minister MG Ramachandran's residence in Ramapuram on the outskirts of the city where she sat in front of MGR's portrait for a few minutes and prayed.
Sasikala is expected to reach the Parappana Agrahara prison in Bengaluru around 4pm. She will surrender before a court on the prison premises. After finishing formalities, including a medical check-up, she would be lodged in the women's enclosure in the jail.
Earlier, in New Delhi, a bench headed by Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose declined the plea by senior counsel K.T.S. Tulsi in the court.
Tulsi said that Sasikala wanted some time to surrender as she has to manage her affairs. However, the bench made it clear that it would not consider the plea.
The apex court on Tuesday upheld a trial court verdict holding Sasikala and two of her relatives guilty of amassing disproportionate assets had directed her to surrender to the trial court forthwith to undergo her remaining sentence.
She was convicted by the trial court to four years jail term and a fine of Rs 10 crore in a corruption case.
