Jayalalithaa’s disproportionate assets case not listed for Monday: Supreme Court

The judgement may be pronounced any day in the coming week as speculation was rife in the wake of a statement made by a bench headed by Justice PC Ghose on February 6 indicating that the verdict would be pronounced within a week. 

The verdict is being eagerly awaited as Sasikala, who has been elected the leader of AIADMK legislature party, has already made a claim for the post of Tamil Nadu CM. 

Justice Ghose, along with Justice Amitava Roy, had last year after a marathon hearing, reserved the verdict in the appeal against the Karnataka High Court order acquitting all accused in the 19-year-old DA case. 

The HC had reversed the 2014 verdict of the Bengaluru special court, which had convicted and sentenced Jayalalithaa to four years in prison and imposed a fine of Rs 100 crore on her. Jayalalithaa, Sasikala and two of her relatives, were accused of allegedly amassing disproportionate asserts to the tune of Rs 66.65 crore during her term as CM from 1991 to 1996. This matter was listed for hearing on February 17.