New Delhi: The Apex Court has scheduled the final hearings on the appeals filed against the acquittal of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and others regarding a disproportionate assets on February 2. Bench of Justices Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Amitava Roy has announced the hearings will start from February 2 and continue on February 3 and 4.
The court fixed the hearing to debate a date for the final arguments and highlight the issues to be argued on in the appeals. Dismissing the requirement to delay the hearing in order to determine what issues should be highlighted, Karnataka government counsel and senior advocate Dushyant Dave said “issues not determinative in setting down the calendar”. Justice Ghose agreed the case would be kept at the top of the cause list on the three days of the hearing in the month of February. The bench said that further hearings would continue as per the exigencies of the cases listed during the month.
The Karnataka has termed the acquittal of Jayalalithaa and others as “gross miscarriage of justice.” It described the judgment delivered on May 11 by Justice C R Kumaraswamy as “cryptic, lacks reasoning and illogical.” It ridiculed the calculations arrived at by the judge, which resulted in the exoneration of the accused.
The petition, filed through State counsel said the judge did not even bother to record cogent reasons for reversing the “well-considered judgment” delivered by trial court judge John Michael D' Cunha on September 27, 2014.
