NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal against VK Sasikala's conviction, ruling that they did not find any error in the judgment that put her and two of her relatives in jail. Sasikala had filed a review petition in May, arguing that she could not have been convicted for disproportionate assets as she had never been a public servant.
A bench consisting of Justices SA Bobde and Amitava Roy said, “We do not find any error in the common judgment impugned, much less an apparent error on the face of the record, so as to call for its review. The review petitions are, accordingly, dismissed.” Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, representing Sasikala and other convicts, handed over written submissions and propositions which were taken on record by the apex court. The review petitions were perused by the bench which later dismissed the pleas. VN Sudhakaran, former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa's foster son, and Sasikala's elder brother Elavarasi are the other two accused.
A trial court in Bengaluru had convicted Sasikala along with Jayalalithaa, Sudhakaran, and Elavarasi in the case for amassing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income. The SC subsequently found her guilty of entering into a conspiracy with Jaya.
Meanwhile, Karnataka Deputy Inspector General of Police D Roopa, in a report claimed that she had reliable information of Sasikala visiting a house belonging to Hosur MLA, near the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison here. Roopa added that, "This may be further ascertained by footages of CCTV cameras placed at the entrance of the jail.”
