Chennai:Â VK Sasikala, who is serving a jail sentence at Bengaluru, has made an application for remission, before the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison authorities, where she is currently lodged.
Sources say, if her remission is accepted, she might be released earlier than the scheduled date of 27 January, 2021.
Prison inmates are eligible for three days of remission, for every one month of good behaviour, it is said.
Sasikalaâs application has been forwarded to the prisonâs higher authorities, who are yet to take a call.
âA review will be done on the 2017 decisionâ, sources added.
Three years ago, the then Deputy Inspector General of Police (prisons) Roopa Moudgil, had alleged that Sasikala had been receiving special benefits, which led to the authorities forfeiting her remission.
However, her counsel had argued that, âWe had applied for an early release on 19 November itself. I have pointed out precedents in similar cases where the person has been released earlier. I want similar consideration for my clientâ.
It is to be noted that Sasikala, who was a close aide of former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, in November, had also paid the court-imposed fine amounts of âč10 crore and âč10,000, which was a condition for her release.
Serving the sentence after being convicted in a disproportionate assets case, her fine amount was paid on her behalf, by her relatives.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami had said that Sasikalaâs release will have no impact on the ruling AIADMK.
âThe release of Sasikala from Bengaluru prison will not change the AIADMKâs decision to keep her and her relatives away from the party and government affairs,â he told reporters in Coimbatore last month.