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Jayalalithaa Will Stay in Jail For Now, Bail Plea Rejected

Jayalalithaa Will Stay in Jail For Now, Bail Plea Rejected

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday denied bail to AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa. The former Tamil Nadu CM and her aides have been convicted and sentenced to four years in jail in a 1995 disproportionate assets case.

Special Public Prosecutor G Bhavani Singh earlier today told the Karnataka High Court that he has no objection to granting conditional bail to the convicts in the case.

THe HC relied on the Supreme Court's stand on the issue to justify the denial of bail to Jayalalithaa. The court said that the SC had previously sent a clear message by ordering the fast tracking of graft cases. The court also said called corruption a violation of all human rights, citing that as lack of grounds for the granting of bail.

It was earlier erroneously reported that Jayalalithaa had been granted conditional bail.

Counsel for all the accused concluded their arguments before the bench this afternoon, with Ilavarasi's advocate questioning the legality of abetment charge and sentence imposed while convicting her in the case.

Singh, earlier in the day, had argued that Jayalalithaa being an influential person in Tamil Nadu, if granted bail, could try to escape from conviction or abscond from the country.

The vacation bench of the High Court had on 1 October deferred till 7 October pleas of Jayalalithaa and her close aide Sasikala and her relatives VN Sudhakaran and Elavarasi, who were also convicted in the case, to be taken by a regular bench after the end of Dasara vacation.

In her petitions seeking immediate bail and challenging her sentence, Jayalalithaa had maintained that the charges of amassing wealth against her were false and that she had acquired property through legal means.

Former Tamil Nadu chief minister and AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa. Former Tamil Nadu chief minister and AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa.

Jayalalithaa’s counsel Ram Jethmalani had on 1 October pleaded for suspension of the sentence pending appeal and for her release on bail, which was opposed by Special Public Prosecutor Bhavani Singh, who was the SPP in the Special Court in the disproportionate assets case.

Meanwhile, the police are prepared for the influx of AIADMK supporters and leaders, who are camping in various lodges and resorts on the eve of Jayalalithaa's bail plea hearing, Kumar said.

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