SC restores Sasikala’s conviction in disproportionate assets case
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) In a major setback for AIADMK General Secretary Sasikala Natarajan, who is aspiring to be the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, the Supreme Court on Tuesday restored her conviction in a disproportionate assets case.
A Supreme Court division bench set aside a Karnataka High Court order staying Sasikala’s conviction by a trial court.
SC convicts Sasikala in DA case asked her to surrender
New Delhi (PTI): AIADMK General Secretary V K Sasikala was today convicted by the Supreme Court which set aside the Karnataka High Court verdict acquitting her in the 19-year-old disproportionate assets case that also involved late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.
The apex court restored in to the judgement and the findings of the trial court in Bengaluru which had held guilty all the accused including Sasikala’s two relatives, V N Sudhakaran and Elavarasi.
The two-judge bench comprising Justices P C Ghose and Amitava Roy directed Sasikala and the two relatives to surrender forthwith to the trial court in Bengaluru and serve the remaining part of four year jail term.
The verdict disqualifies Sasikala from becoming a legislator, and consequentially she can’t be chief minister either. The bench read the operative portion of the voluminous judgement saying that “according to the materials and evidence place on record, we set aside the judgement and the order of the high court and affirm in toto the judgement and order the trial court convicting the accused persons.”
The bench said since Jayalalithaa has expired, the proceeding against her is abated. “Nevertheless, we reiterate that having regard to the facts, the charge framed against them by the trial court is restored,” the bench said.
“Since the charges framed by the trial court have been restored against all of them they will surrender forthwith before the trial court and serve the remaining part of the sentence,” the bench said. The trial court had sentenced Sasikala and her two relatives to four years imprisonment with a fine of Rs 10 crore each. Jayalalithaa was sentenced to four years with a fine of Rs 100 crore.
How long before this #Amma2 begins to claim it’s hard to be a woman politician in India and face the law? If she had belonged to Congres or the other leftist parties media would have jumped to her defence regardless of her culpability. Gender victim-hood works very well in Indian…. system.
These political developments in Tamil Nadu politics on 7 February 2017 and after are in line with this Vedic astrology writer’s predictions in article “ 2017 – an opportune year for India with major worrisome concerns in February-March and August-September” issued widely to Indian news media last year in October and November 2016. The latest political scenario has now developed after conviction of Sasikala for four years by SC in her asset disproportionate case. It was predicted that while January to March could be a testing time for Chennai in Tamil Nadu , February-March may have major worrisome concerns involving… Read more »
Yeah yeah. Only Sonia has proportionate assets da.
Congratulations to Justice John Michel D’cunha. His judgement on the DA of Jayalalitha and Sasikala case was set aside by the high court under mysterious circumstances. The Judge D’cunha has been proved right by the supreme court