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Wealth of difference in evaluation of assets
A quantum jump in the wealth of J Jayalalithaa, from Rs 2.01 crore to Rs 66.65 crore during her term as Chief Minister from 1991 to 1996, which was not in line with her known sources of income resulted in the registration of the Disproportionate Assets case in 1997.
Chennai
Throughout her life thereafter, Jayalalithaa and three others accused in the case retained a battery of lawyers to contest the figures. Here is the table (rounded off to nearest digit), of wealth, as estimated by the DVAC, the trial court and the Karnataka High Court, as well as those by the four accused.Â
For the common man, the image of disproportionate assets was reinforced after photographs of the ostentatious wedding of Jayalalithaa’s foster son and Sasikala’s nephew, Sudhakaran. Â
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