Jayalalithaa case: Acharya back as SPP

Bengaluru: Senior Counsel and former State Advocate General B V Acharya is back as the special public prosecutor (SPP) in the disproportionate assets case against AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa. Karnataka government issued notification in this regards after the Supreme Court declared that Tamil Nadu government had no right to appoint SPP in the case since transfer of the case to Karnataka. The Apex Court had earlier declared as unauthorised the Tamil Nadu’s action of appointing G Bhavani Singh as SPP and had asked State of Karnataka to file written statement in the appeals filed by Jayalalitha before the High Court questioning her conviction in the case. The Supreme Court had also asked the High Court to ignore the statement filed by Singh.