Four key officials attached to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s Secretariat today left here for Bangalore to meet Jayalalithaa, who has been awarded a four-year jail term in a graft case.
Former Chief Secretary and currently adviser to Chief Minister Sheela Balakrishnan, Secretaries Venkataraman, Ramalingam and Sudalai Kannan left by a private airliner, according to airport sources.
The reason for the meeting was not immediately known.
A special court had yesterday convicted and sentenced Jayalalithaa to undergo four years simple imprisonment and slapped a hefty fine of Rs 100 crore in a corruption case.
Jayalalithaa, aide Sasikala Natarajan, her son V N Sudhakaran and her niece Ilavarasi were also sentenced to four years.
–PTI