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Tuesday, September 30, 2014 01:42 AM IST
Bengaluru:
The Bengaluru Special Court judge J M Cunha has said that the prosecution has “proved beyond reasonable doubt that all the four accused (Jayalalithaa, Sasikala Natarajan, V N Sudhagaran and J Ilavarasi) were parties to criminal conspiracy with the object of acquiring and possessing pecuniary resources and assets to the extent of Rs. 53,60,49,954 beyond the known source of income of the first accused.”
In his judgement in the disproportionate assets case against the then chief minister and AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa and the other three, said Jayalalithaa “could not satisfactorily account” for immovable properties and pecuniary resources worth about Rs. 53.60 crore during the period of 1991-96, her first term as CM.
Justifying the sentence, the judge said, “acting under Section 248 (2) of Cr.P.C., A-1 is hereby convicted for the offence punishable under Section 13 (1) (e) read with Section 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.”
The court also held that A-2 to A-4 “abetted the commission of the above offence by intentionally aiding A-1 (Jayalalithaa) in the acquisition and possession of pecuniary resources and properties disproportionate to her known source of income as above.”
