Sasikala admitted to hospital week before release from jail
Update: 2021-01-21 02:01 IST
Sasikala
Bengaluru: V.K. Sasikala, a close aide of the late chief minister of Tamil Nadu, J.Jayalalithaa, was admitted to Bowring Hospital after she complained of fever and back pain.
She tested Covid-19 negative and her samples have been collected for RT-PCR test. Till the results come she will stay in the hospital.
Sasikala is serving a four-year jail sentence in a disproportionate assets case in which the late CM of Tamil Nadu was also a prime accused. She was set to be released on January 27 after paying a fine of Rs 10 crore.
Sources close to her believe that she might have contracted Covid-19.
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