Bengaluru: The State government has ordered a probe by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) against two senior prison officials here in connection with alleged preferential treatment accorded to deposed AIADMK leader V K Sasikala last year, a senior police official said.
During her stint as DIG Prisons in July last year, Roopa, IGP (Home Guards) had brought to light the alleged special treatment given to Sasikala and also said there was “a talk” that Rs 2 crore had been paid as bribe to the officials in this regard.
Roopa had levelled the charges in a report to her superior, the then DGP (Prisons) H S Sathyanarayana Rao, while mentioning that there allegations against him too.
Sasikala, a close aide of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalaalitha, is serving a four-year sentence in the prison here in a disproportionate assets case.
The ACB had been asked to submit its report in three months, said Roopa, who was transferred from the DIG Prisons post at the height of the controversy created by her report.
The decision was taken after the Vinay Kumar Committee, which was set up to probe the alleged preferential treatment to Sasikala, submitted its report to the government.
The CCTV footage had surfaced in the media last August purportedly showing Sasikala entering the jail, wearing clothes that didn’t appear to be prison uniform.
The footage was submitted by Roopa on August 19 as part of her statement to the ACB then in support of her allegations that Sasikala was being given preferential treatment in the prison.
The ACB had conducted a probe earlier after she submitted the report.
