Monday, 31 October 2011: Former Minister and Kerala Congress (B) leader R Balakrishna Pillai, who is serving imprisonment in the Idamalayar graft case at Poojappura central prison, will be released on Tuesday. Pillai along with other 137 jail inmates is being released as part of ‘Kerala Piravi’ day.
State government has issued a directive regarding this, sources said. 76-year old Pillai was jailed on February 18 after the Supreme Court sentenced him to one-year imprisonment in the case relating to irregularities in awarding of contracts for Idamalaylar power project when he was Power minister in the late 1980s.
Pillai was shifted to a private hospital here for treatment earlier after he developed health related ailments.
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