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Karnataka prison manual 19786/1/2023 ![]() The issue had caused embarrassment to the then Congress government led by Siddaramaiah which ordered the transfer of Roopa and Rao after both sparred in public. In a report submitted on July 12 to DGP (Prisons) H N Satyanarayana Rao, Roopa had said there was "a talk" that Rs two crore had exchanged hands to give preferential treatment for Sasikala and there were allegations against him also, charge rejected by him. The then Siddaramaiah government had ordered an inquiry by retired IAS officer Vinay Kumar to probe the allegations made by Roopa after the issue snowballed. ![]() ![]() The reply was furnished by M R Shobha, Public Relations Officer of the Home Department. The report confirms that Sasikala was given special treatment in the jail," he said. ![]() "I have accessed the 295 pages report through an RTI query. The 295-page report confirmed then DIG (Prisons) D Roopa's claims in July 2017 that Sasikala was given preferential treatment and a separate kitchen functioned for her at the Parappana Agrahara Central Jail Here, RTI activist Narasimha Murthy said. Bengaluru, Jan 20: Ousted AIADMK leader V.K Sasikala was given special treatment in a prison here, where she is serving imprisonment in a corruption case, according to the report by an inquiry committee that went into allegations by a senior police official, an RTI query has revealed.
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