Will SC agree with 'unwell' Jayalalithaa's bail plea?

October 10, 2014 08:52

After jailed former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa was denied bail by Karnataka High Court following her conviction and four year sentence in a graft case, her plea for bail could come up for hearing on Friday.

Jayalalithaa, who has been behind bars for the last 12 days, yesterday moved the Supreme Court for bail. She urged the Apex court to grant an urgent hearing on her plea during the mentioning hour.

Jayalalithaa has pleaded that she has been sentenced for four years in the disproportionate assets case and she is also suffering from various ailments as grounds for her immediate relief.

The 66-year-old veteran politician said that she did not misuse her power as the chief minister in the case and also cited grounds of being a senior citizen and a woman for getting out of the jail.

She was denied bail on October 07 by the Karnataka High Court which held that there were no grounds for it as corruption amounts to "violation of human rights" and must be dealt with seriously.

The order, that came as a blow to the AIADMK chief and shocked her supporters outside, was delivered by Justice AV Chandrashekhara despite the Special Public Prosecutor Bhavani Singh saying he had no objections to grant of conditional bail to her.

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