Bengaluru: Jailed AIADMKleader VK Sasikala wasgranted parole for 15 days on Tuesday to attend her husband M Natarajan's last rites.
The 74 year-old Natarajan, admitted to a Chennai hospital with chest infection, breathed his last Tuesday.
His body is to be taken to his village in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu, about 350 km south of Chennai, for last rites.
Sasikala is currently serving a four-year sentence in a Bengaluru jail after the Supreme Court upheld her conviction in a corruption case in February 2017.
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