Jayalalitha gets interim bail from Supreme Court

17 Oct 2014 Evaluate

The Supreme Court on Friday granted a two-month bail to J Jayalalithaa on medical grounds and also suspended the Karnataka High Court sentence against the former Tamil Nadu chief minister in an illegal assets case. On September 27, a Bangalore trial court had convicted the AIADMK chief and the three others of four years in jail in the 18-year-old case for possessing assets worth over Rs.66 crores disproportionate to Jayalalithaa's known sources of income during her first tenure as chief minister from 1991 to 1996.

Jayalalithaa has promised the apex court that she will be confined to her Chennai home for the next two to three months. While granting bail, the Supreme Court asked Jayalalithaa to direct her party workers not to create law and order problem in the state. There were massive protests and multiple suicides by her supporters in Tamil Nadu after she was convicted.

The former Tamil Nadu chief minister has been in a Bangalore prison for almost two weeks after she was sentenced to four years in jail and fined Rs.100 crore last month. She had moved the apex court on October 9 after the Karnataka High Court on October 7 turned down her bail plea as well as of other convicts. The court held that there were no grounds for granting them bail.

Besides health grounds, the 66-year-old leader had invoked Section 389 of the Code of Criminal Procedure seeking the suspension of her sentence and grant of bail till the pendency of her appeal against the trial court order convicting and sentencing her in the case.

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