NEW DELHI: AIADMK leader VK Sasikala has moved the Supreme Court seeking re-examination of its verdict in the disproportionate assets case, for which she is currently serving jail term. Filed by Sasikala, Amma's foster son VN Sudhakaran, and Sasikala's sister in law Elavarasi, the petition challenged the setting aside of Karnataka High Court verdict acquitting her and restoring the trial court verdict in toto.
An advocate involved in the petition said Sasikala has relied on an earlier apex court verdict of 1991, in which after the death of a prime accused, the proceeding against the co-accused was also abated in a corruption case. The SC had set aside the order acquitting all the four accused and “restored in toto” the trial court's decision in the 19-year old disproportionate assets case. The court found disproportionate assets worth £5.36 million, for which late Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa and others could not account for. Sasikala had been in jail in 1996 when the case was registered and later in 2014 after the Special trial court convicted and awarded a four-year sentence with a fine of £1 million. The apex court, which abated the proceedings against Jayalalithaa who breathed her last on December 5 last year, held that the criminal conspiracy was hatched at her Poes Garden residence in Chennai.
