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Saturday, September 27, 2014 05:20 PM IST
Bengaluru:
The special court in Bengaluru has convicted Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa to a four-year jail term and a fine of Rs 100 crore, and the AIADMK supremo is being taken to the Bengaluru central prison on September 27 night, with the court finding them guilty in the Rs 66.65
crore disproportionate assets case.
The Special Court Judge John Michael D’Cunha has also convicted her close aide Sasikala Natarajan, and her relatives Ilvarasi and V N Sudhagaran, former adopted son of Jayalalithaa.
Tamil Nadu chief minister and AIADMK supremo may step down as chief minister on September 27, 2014, night and the ruling party would shortly elect the new CM.
Even while Jayalalithaa is expected to take steps to seek a stay of the special court verdict, it is not yet known if she would get an early stay of the proceedings. In view of a vacuum in the government at the top, the ruling party may be forced to elect a new CM till such time as she is
enabled to contest elections again or the verdict is stayed or altered and she can return to office.
The AIADMK chief has been charged with amassing Rs 66.65 crore between 1991 and 1996 when she was Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.
Stray violence rocked parts of Tamil Nadu as AIADMK workers took to the streets, attacked some shops and forced them to down their shutters, while there were a few cases of stone-pelting against some buses.
AIADMK workers burnt effigies of DMK president M Karunanidhi and BJP leader Subramanian Swamy.
Following attacks on buses, the state transport corporation withdrew bus services in some areas. The residences of DMK president M Karunanidhi and Subramanian Swamy were subjected to stone-pelting but police quickly rushed to the spot and prevented further violence. DMK workers also gathered in large numbers with some make-shift weapons to provide protection to their leader.
In some areas of the State, AIADMK workers resorted to road-roko.
