Bangalore, Sept 29: Jailed former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa Monday filed a criminal revision petition within the Karnataka high court here, seeking suspension of the four-year jail sentence and bail within the corruption case.
Jayalalithaa’s senior counsel B. Kumar filed a collection of 4 applications with the judicature registrar for an early hearing, seeking suspension of the sentence, bail for her unleash, review of the hefty Rs.100 crore fine and continue conviction, an AIADMK leader told here.
As the high court is on a week-long vacation until Oct 6, the petitions are place up before a vacation bench, which will hear solely imperative or special cases Tues.
A special court here Saturday guilty Jayalalithaa within the 18-year-old case of amassing wealth disproportionate to her well-known financial gain and sentenced her to four years in jail.
She was additionally fined Rs.100 crore below the Indian penal code and the prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.“If the petition for suspending the sentence is allowed, we hope the bail application will be thought-about as we wish our party supremo out of jail at the earliest,” the leader said on the condition of anonymity.
One interim petition seeks continue arrogation of properties condemned in 1997 from Jayalalithaa’s residence in Chennai by the enforcement directorate and currently within the custody of the judicature here.
The properties embrace regarding 800 kg of silver, twenty eight kilogram of gold ornaments, 750 pairs of shoes, 10,500 saris, ninety one watches and different valuables.
Along with Jayalalithaa, 3 others were additionally sentenced to four years in jail in the case though the fine obligatory is Rs.10 crore on every of them.
The three convicted are Sasikala Natarajan, V.N. Sudhakaran and J. Illavarasi.Jayalalithaa has been disqualified from being a member of the Tamil Nadu assembly and removed from the chief minister’s post Monday when the judicature submitted a copy of the 900-page judgement to Tamil Nadu Governor K. Rosaiah in Chennai.