Jayalalithaa released from Bangalore jail

Former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa Saturday walked out of the central jail on the city’s outskirts after a special court here ordered her release.

“Jayalalithaa has left the jail a few minutes ago after completing the formalities,” Karnataka Inspector General of Prisons (IGP) K.V. Gagandeep told IANS.

The special court Saturday ordered her release from the jail a day after the Supreme Court granted her interim bail in a corruption case,

IANS