Pillai’s release: VS submits more evidence in SC

Thursday, 08 December 2011: Opposition leader V.S. Achuthanandan has today gave more evidence in the Supreme Court against Kerala Congress (B) leader R. Balakrishna Pillai.
Meanwhile Achuthanandan filed plea says that Pillai was not eligible for remission of prison sentence on account of good conduct as he had been punished for the unauthorized use of mobile phone while undergoing imprisonment.
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.
Pillai ran into further trouble last month after he responded to a call from a local TV channel to his phone in violation of prison rules, following which authorities had extended his jail term by four days as penalty.
He was punished with an additional four days of imprisonment for having talked to a television channel reporter over mobile phone during imprisonment.

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