By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal - Indian Corruption: Karnataka High Court adjourns Jayalalithaa's plea for bail

On September 27, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa was sentenced by special  court in Bangalore investigating  illegal s asset case of Jayalalithaa to serve four years in jail and asked to pay a fine Rs.100 crores in connection with a disproportionate assets case by a Bangalore Special Court.

Jayalalithaa, who is also the chief of the AIADMK party, had moved Karnataka High Court on September 29  challenging her conviction in an 18-year-old disproportionate assets case, and sought her immediate release on bail. The AIADMK chief on had moved Karnataka High Court challenging her conviction in an 18-year-old disproportionate assets case, and sought her immediate release on bail.

However, her plea for immediate bail could not be granted by the Karnataka High Court. The High Court on September 20 adjourned All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) leader Jayalalithaa's bail plea hearing to October 6. The court adjourned the matter as there was no representation on the respondent's side.

Special Public Prosecutor Bhavani Singh told the court that he did not receive any official communication from the state government on his appointment as a prosecutor for the appeal. 
Singh was also the special public prosecutor at the Special Court.

Jayalalithaa was declared guilty of amassing wealth disproportionate to known sources of her income under Sections 109 and 120 (b) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. Her three other co-accused-one time close aide Sasikala Natarajan, her niece Ilavarasi and her nephew and disowned foster son Sudhakaran were asked to pay fines of Rs.10 crores each and sentenced to serve jail terms of six months each.

The verdict was delivered at a makeshift court in the Parappana Agrahara prison complex in the presence of Jayalalithaa and the other accused. However, terming the verdict as a 'perfectly correct' judgment, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy said that although Jayalalithaa can appeal against the verdict in the higher courts, she will not succeed, because the higher courts will uphold this judgment. "Let her appeal, it is allowed in the Constitution, all crooks do it, but she is not going to succeed. The court has given a perfectly correct judgment, and I think that all the higher level courts like the high court and the Supreme Court will uphold this judgment," Swamy had said

The Bangalore verdict resulted in violent protests by the AIADMK cadres leading to stone pelting and self immolation attempts to express their outrage against the verdict.

Meanwhile O. Pannirselvam, now a senior minister in her cabinet who was the interim chief minister of Tamil Nadu  state when Jayalalithaa was in jail earlier,  has again , as per the instructions  of Jayalalithaa  from Bangalore jail, assumed the office of CM now.

Abdul Nassar Madani  who had been arrested  and put in Coimbatore  jail for  10 years  before he was acquitted by the courts  by declaring all cases booked by Kerala and Tamil Nadu governments  null and void, is in also in Bangalore jail but I son bail for the time being as Karnataka government  does want to  release him from  jail. In fact, Madani was at home in his home town  Kollam in Kerala when Karnataka government had sent a police team to arrest him from his home without assigning any valid reason, except that media blasted the news that Madani was arrested   for another terror case in Karnataka.    That is the height of madness on their part.  Madani has been languishing in Jails  without any credible reason because he defended Muslims from threatening atrocities of Hindutva forces that use region for  poll purposes. .