Poes Garden chef cooking for Sasi in jail
5 rooms have been specially allotted to Sasi and Ilavarasi for various purposes
In what could substantiate the allegations of DIG D. Roopa Moudgil, photos of jailed AIADMK leader V.K. Sasikala given special privileges in Parappana Agrahara central jail were released to media on Monday.
It is alleged that five rooms have been allotted to her flouting rules. In another startling information, it is alleged that a woman cook, who was working at Poes Garden, has been illegally kept with Sasikala to cook food for her.
A set of photos showing the five rooms were released to media and it is alleged that the rooms are used by Sasikala and Ilavarasi.
Two rooms are allegedly used as bedrooms, one for cooking, one for meeting visitors and the other one for stocking their belongings. The pictures also reveal that the passage in front of these rooms is barricaded to prevent other inmates from entering the area and thereby causing disturbance to the high profile prisoner’s privacy. It is also seen in the photos that the grills on the parapet of the passage are covered using cloth, so that no others could see what is happening there from outside.
Meanwhile, highly placed sources said that a woman cook, who was earlier working at Poes Garden when former Tamil Nadu CM J. Jayalalithaa was alive, has been illegally made to stay with Sasikala in one of the
ROOPA, SENIOR COP SHUNTED
The two top heads of the prison department – DGP H.N. Sathyanarayana Rao and DIG D. Roopa Moudgil – have been shunted out of the department. While Mr Rao has been sent on compulsory leave, Ms Moudgil has been transferred five rooms. “This is gross violation of the prison rules and the first time we have come across such thing. The prison staff are heavily bribed for this,” a senior officer said.
It is also alleged that visitors are given access to Sasikala’s room directly, which is again a violation of norms. “As per rules, the inmates should come to the interview rooms and meet the visitors. In Sasikala’s case, the person is visiting her by taking appointment in other person’s name as there are restrictions on multiple visits by a single person. Also, they write in the register that they have come to meet Ilavarasi or V N Sudhakaran. But they will enter the prison and meet Sasikala,” he added.