On June 7, 2016, the Supreme Court had reserved its judgement on Jayalalithaa's disproportionate assets case.
The Supreme Court is likely to deliver a verdict in disproportionate assets case against late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and her close aide VK Sasikala, said reports
The court had reserved its judgement on June 7, 2016.
The developments comes a day after Sasikala was elected as the AIADMK Legislature Party leader, to pave her way to become the Chief Minister. 62-year-old Sasikala, shadow of Jayalalithaa for over three decades, was always considered a power centre and backroom player.
The Supreme Court will give the verdict on various appeals including the one filed by Karnataka against the acquittal of Jayalalithaa and others in a disproportionate assets case.
The Karnataka government which is arguing the case as the trial was shifted from Tamil Nadu and a Bangalore court had convicted the accused including late Jayalalithaa who had succeeded in her challenge before the High Court there.
Earlier last year, senior advocate Dushyant Dave, appearing for Karnataka government had said that there were glaring mistakes in the order of the Karnataka High Court acquitting Jayalalithaa and others which needed to be set aside.
Besides Jayalalithaa, others accquited by the High Court were her close aide Sasikala and her two relatives, V N Sudhakaran and Elavarasi. Dave said Jayalalithaa was Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu from June 24, 1991 to May 13, 1996 and Sasikala and her two relatives had acted in conspiracy to amass huge wealth of Rs 53.60 crore disproportionate to their known sources of income.
The Karnataka HC had on May 11, 2015 ruled that AIADMK supremo's conviction by special court suffered from infirmity and was not sustainable in law, clearing decks for her return as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister.
Karnataka government, in its plea against the May 11 last year order, claimed that HC had erred in computing disproportionate assets of the AIADMK leader. The Karnataka government also asked whether the high court had "erred in law" by according benefit of doubt to Jayalalithaa in pursuance of a Supreme Court judgement holding that accused can be acquitted if his or her disproportionate assets were to the extent of ten per cent.
The state government had also claimed that the high court has erred in overruling preliminary objections raised by it and added that the accused had filed their appeals against conviction without impleading Karnataka as a party. The special court had in 2014 held Jayalalithaa guilty of corruption and sentenced her to four years imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 100 crore.
(With agency inputs)
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