The searches are being conducted in connection with unexplained routing of cash post-demonetisation through shell companies allegedly connected to Sasikala and her nephew TTV Dinakaran.

The raid may enter third day as the searches are continuing in several premises. For the second consecutive day on Friday, Income Tax (I-T) officials continued their massive raids at around 140 premises.

Ten groups of IT officials were involved in the "search exercise taking place across Tamil Nadu, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi and other places" which began at 6 am.

Sasikala, 60, was granted a five-day parole on October 6, and had to return to the prison by October 12 evening, as directed by the jail authorities.

Sasikala, a close aide of former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa, has been directed by the authorities to report to the Bengaluru jail on October 12 by 6 pm.

Sasikala's five-day parole, for visiting her husband in a hospital here, ended today and she will return to Parappana Agrahara central jail in Bengaluru today.

Sasikala's husband M Natarajan had recently undergone liver and kidney transplant from a brain-dead donor. He was admitted to hospital last month after a multiple organ failure.

Jailed AIADMK leader VK Sasikala's husband M Natarajan has undergone liver and kidney transplant at a city hospital with the organs harvested from a brain-dead youth

Dhinakaran said on Monday that party leader and his aunt V K Sasikala has sought a 15-day parole to meet her ailing husband M Natarajan

An AIDMK delegation met the Commission and countered the claims of the rebel camp led by Sasikala and her nephew TTV Dhinakaran that the resolutions were invalid.

The decision was taken during the General Council meeting which also annulled the appointments done by Sasikala before going to jail, including making her nephew TTV Dinakaran the party Deputy General Secretary.

Sidelined AIADMK leader T.T.V. Dinakaran, who is leading 21 party legislators, on Tuesday said he would work towards bringing down the K. Palaniswami government

J Jayalalithaa will remain permanent AIADMK general secretary, according to AIADMK General Council Resolution.

The Madras High Court on Monday night upheld an order of a single judge dismissing a plea to stay tomorrow's AIADMK general council and executive committee meeting convened by Chief Minister K Palaniswami-led faction

This the second notice to the lawmakers owing allegiance to Sasikala and her nephew and party Deputy General Secretary T.T.V. Dinakaran.

The AIADMK will hold a crucial meeting on Monday to decide on the modalities of formal expulsion of jailed interim General Secretary V K Sasikala and to declare the actions taken by her nephew T.T.V. Dhinakaran against party office bearers

Upset over the coming together of the two major factions of the AIADMK, the 19 legislators have submitted a memorandum to Governor C. Vidyasagar Rao withdrawing their support to the Chief Minister

In the 234-member assembly, the AIADMK has 134 MLAs. Sasikala's brother V Dinakaran, meanwhile, claimed the Palaniswami ministry had "lost majority" and sought his resignation

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikala’s plea to review its verdict sentencing her to four years imprisonment in a graft case