Former All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader VK Sasikala was discharged from hospital in Bengaluru on Sunday, after she recovered from coronavirus, PTI reported. On Wednesday, she was released from jail after serving a four-year sentence in a corruption case.
Despite restrictions, several of Sasikala’s supporters gathered to congratulate her at the Victoria Hospital in Bengaluru, where she was admitted after testing positive for Covid-19 while under judicial custody, The News Minute reported. The former AIADMK leader was taken to a resort in Bengaluru, where she will quarantine for seven days, ANI reported, quoting her nephew TTV Dhinakaran.
Sasikala, who was a close aide of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, was convicted in a disproportionate assets case on February 14, 2017. She was released after paying a Rs 10-crore fine, failing which her imprisonment would have been extended by 13 more months. She had tested positive for the coronavirus…