Tuesday, 08 November 2011: Kerala Congress (B) leader and
former minister R Balakrishna Pillai, who was undergoing treatment at a private
hospital here, has been discharged today.
Reliable sources informed that Pillai would be staying back
in Thiruvananthapuram and will attend Kerala Congress (B) faction executive
meeting scheduled today.
Pillai, who was under going jail term in Poojappura central
prison, was freed under the remission granted by the state government on the
occasion of state-formation day.
Pillai was sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment by
the Supreme Court in a case of corruption in February this year, pertaining to
awarding of contract for a tunnel of the Edamalayar hydropower project in 1990s
when he was Power Minister in the then UDF government.
The release orders were handed over by the Central Prison
officials here to 78-year-old Pillai at a private hospital in the city where he
had been shifted for treatment about three months ago.
Meanwhile the Opposition LDF voiced strong reservation over
the decision alleging the guidelines of the remission order were drawn up to
help Pillai, whose Kerala Congress (B) is a partner in the ruling Congress-led
UDF. Pillai’s son Ganesh Kumar is the Forest Minister in the Oommen Chandy
Government.
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