TheĬourt also posted the case for August 10, for examination of prosecution witnesses. Special court on July 3 framed charges against the former chief minister and others. The prosecution case is that during 1992-93, Jayalalitha and nine others had entered into a criminal conspiracy to import substandard coal for Tamil Nadu Electricity Board. Jayalalitha is alleged to have caused a loss of Rs 65 million to the state exchequer in a 1993 deal for import of 2 million tonnes of coal for the state electricity board. Jayalalitha has appealed against the judgement in the Supreme Court. Girls were burnt to death when an angry group of AIADMK workers set ablaze a Coimbatore Agriculture University bus near Dharmapuri. Her conviction sparked off violent protests all across the state, leaving three college girls dead. On February 2, 2000, Special Judge V Radhakrishnan convicted and sentenced Jayalalitha and her four colleagues to one year's rigorous imprisonment for favouring the owner of the hotel in return for monetary considerations when she was ruling Tamil Nadu from 1991-96. Jayalalitha and her erstwhile ministerial colleagues are accused of having allowed a seven-storeyed luxury hotel to come up in the hill station of Kodaikanal in brazen violation of building laws applicable to such areas, which permit only two floors. The CBI investigation on the case is still on. Singh sent a letter rogatory to the Channel Islands in the United Kingdom. But when Tamil Manila Congress leader P Chidambaram was finance minister in the H D Deve Gowda government, he asked the thenĬBI chief Joginder Singh to identify the source of the donation. Since it wasĪ gift in foreign exchange, no tax was levied.
According to the CBI, she received a donation of Rs 30 million from abroad and showed the same in her income tax returns during 1992-93. This is the only major case against Jayalalitha that the apex Central Bureau of Investigation is probing. On January 13 this year, the Madras high court discharged her in the case. Jayalalitha was accused of using her official position to acquire government land in 1992 for Jaya Publications, of which she was a partner.
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Besides Selvaganapathy, those convicted were former chief secretary N Haribhaskar, Indian Administrative Service officials H M Pandey and M Sathiyamoorthy, the minister's personal assistant K Janarthanam, TV agents S Duraisamy and S Muthukumaraswamy. The court however convicted seven others, including former local administration minister T M Selvaganapathy, and sentenced them to undergo five years rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each. On May 30 this year, Jayalalitha, her close aide Sasikala Natarajan and Sasikala's relative S R Bhaskaran were acquitted. Purchase of 45,302 colour TV sets for village community centres across Tamil Nadu. Jayalalitha is alleged to have received kickbacks of Rs 85 million in a 1995 deal for Here is a ready reckoner to cases that Jayalalitha has fought and is fighting. Fighting these cases and the judgements on them has variously affected Jayalalitha's political career. There are as many as 12 major corruption cases against Jayalalitha alone and 33 cases against her associates, including her confidante Sasikala, former AIADMK ministers and senior Tamil Nadu bureaucrats. In the past few years, the Tamil Nadu government has set up three special courts to exclusively deal with the cases against the 52-year-old AIADMK leader. But she is also the first chief minister to be declared guilty under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The actress-turned politician was the first woman chief minister of Tamil Special: The cases against JayalalithaĪll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary J Jayalalitha has manyįirsts to her credit.
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