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“The I-T officials showed Sasikala a pile of documents, photo copies of bank account details and her cash transactions, seeking her explanation. “Some documents linked to the company had been seized from her room,” said the source. The ED booked Sasikala and her relative Baskaran for allegedly purchasing equipment for a TV channel in 1996 from abroad allegedly through illegal means. The questioning will continue on Friday too.”“We had written to the Karnataka home department in January seeking permission to question Sasikala,” said an I-T source.The Enforcement Directorate is also likely to seek permission to question her in connection with an alleged Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA) violation case. CHENNAI: Income tax officials on Thursday questioned former chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s aideV K Sasikala at the Parappana Agrahara central prison in Bengaluru in relation to the documents, hard disks and pen drives seized from her room in Jayalalithaa’s Poes Garden bungalow last year.Sources said a five-member team questioned Sasikala, who is also the AMMK general secretary, for more than five hours from 11am.Sasikala, who has been in prison since February 2017 after her conviction in a wealth case, was asked about her connection with a firm that has a Swiss bank account..