Dinakaran reaches Bengaluru jail to meet Sasikala

August 02, 2017 16:05

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader TTV Dinakaran, who is out on bail in a case of alleged bribery, isa at the Parappana Agrahara jail in Bengaluru to meet his aunt and party chief VK Sasikala.

Dinakaran last met Sasikala on June 15. Sasikala was sentenced to a four-year jail term since February in a disproportionate assets case.

Dinakaran, who was arrested in the Election Commission bribery case, spent close to two months in Delhi's Tihar jail.

Dinakaran who was arrested on April 25 by the Delhi Police Crime Branch on allegations of attempting to bribe the Election Commission officials to get the two leaves symbol allotted illegally to his faction, has so far met Sasikala twice in jail.

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