Sasikala heads to jail over graft

Last goodbye: Sasikala paying homage at Jayalalithaa’s memorial in Chennai before leaving for Bangalore to serve her sentence. — Reuters

Chennai: Disgraced Indian politician VK Sasikala prepared to hand herself over to begin a four-year jail term for corruption, days before she had been due to become chief minister of Tamil Nadu.

Sasikala yesterday set off by car from her base in the southern state’s capital Chennai to Bangalore where she will serve her sentence, a day after judges found her guilty of illegally amassing assets worth US$10mil (RM44mil).