Three months to go before VK Sasikala -- the aide of the late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa -- walks free, her assets to the tune of ₹ 1500 crore have been attached by the Income Tax department. The 69-year-old -- who was jailed in 2017 in a disproportionate assets case in which the late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa was the prime accused -- is scheduled to be released from Bengaluru's Parappana Agrahara jail by the end of January, months before the Tamil Nadu state elections, due in May 2021.