SC notice to CM on appeal against acquittal

July 28, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 02:04 am IST - NEW DELHI

Response sought from Jayalalitha on assets case

: The Supreme Court today sought response from Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa and three others on appeals filed against Karnataka High Court order acquitting them in a disproportionate assets case.

A bench comprising Justices P. C. Ghose and R. K. Agrawal also issued notices to Jayalalithaa’s close aide Sasikala and two of her relatives, V. N. Sudhakaran and Elavarasi, and asked them to file their replies within eight weeks.

The Karnataka HC order had on May 11 ruled that the AIADMK supremo’s conviction by the special court suffered from infirmity and was not sustainable in law, clearing the decks for her return as the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister.

Karnataka government had, in its appeal against the May 11 verdict, taken the ground that the state government’s prosecuting agency was not made a party before the High court.

The petition, filed through advocate Joseph Aristotle, had also claimed that the High Court erred in computing the disproportionate assets of the AIADMK leader. The state government in the petition had asked as to whether the High Court had “erred in law” by according the benefit of doubt to Jayalalithaa in pursuance of a Supreme Court judgment holding that an accused can be acquitted if his or her disproportionate assets was to the extent of ten per cent.PTI

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