“We will claim Rs 51.1 million plus money from Tamil Nadu government which was spent on handling the case in Bengaluru. The home ministry is working on calculating expenses incurred on providing security to the Tamil Nadu chief minister.” law minister T B Jayachandra told reporters.
This decision came four days after the Karnataka government decided to file an appeal in the Supreme Court against Jayalilathaa's acquittal that restored her chief ministership last month.
The apex court had transferred the case to Bengaluru on November 18, 2003, after DMK Secretary K Anbazhagan approached it contending that a fair trial was not possible in Tamil Nadu with Jayalalithaa as the chief minister.
The law department, after necessary findings and calculations, had arrived at Rs 51.1 million to be claimed from the neighbouring state for incurring expenses on matters related to his department, Jayachandra said.
Jayalalithaa was acquitted by Karnataka High Court on May 11 in the 19-year-old case. It also exonerated AIADMK chief's close aide Sasikala Natarajan and the latter's relatives J Elavarasi and V N Sudhakaran, disowned foster son of Jayalalithaa, giving relief from the conviction of four years for all.
The Special Court in Karnataka had earlier sentenced Jayalalithaa and three others to four years in jail and slapped a fine of Rs 1 billion on her and Rs 100 million on others.
