Karnataka HC to hear Jayalalithaa's bail plea today

October 07, 2014 08:55

The Karnataka high court will hear former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa's plea seeking immediate bail and suspension of her four-year sentence in the disproportionate assets case.

Bracing up for the anticipated entry of AIADMK supporters and leaders into the city from the Hosur border, the police have tightened security in and around the high court and Parappana Agrahara Central Prison, where Jayalalithaa is lodged since September 27.

The High Court vacation bench had on October 1 deferred till October 7 pleas of Jayalalithaa and her close aide Sasikala and her relatives VN Sudhakaran and Ilavarasi, who were also convicted in the case, to be taken by a regular bench after the end of Dasara vacation.

Section 144 of the CrPC has been clamped within 1 km radius of the High Court and Parapanna Agrahara Prison.

Jayalalithaa's counsel Ram Jethmalani had on October 1 pleaded for suspension of the sentence pending appeal and for her release on bail, which was opposed by Special Public Prosecutor Bhavani Singh, who was the SPP in the Special Court in the disproportionate assets case.

In his verdict on September 27, Special Judge John Michael D'Cunha had convicted Jayalalithaa, sentencing her to four years imprisonment, and slapped a staggering fine of Rs 100 crore in the corruption case. Sasikala, Sudhakaran, disowned foster son of the former chief minister, and Ilavarasi were also sentenced to four years in jail, besides a fine of Rs 10 crore each.

In her petitions seeking immediate bail and challenging her sentence, Jayalalithaa has maintained that the charges of amassing wealth against her were false and that she had acquired property through legal means.

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