Graft case : Sasikala files review petition in supreme court

Graft case : Sasikala files review petition in supreme court

Jailed AIADMK leader VK Sasikala on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court seeking re-examination of its verdict holding her guilty and sentencing her to 4-year imprisonment in a graft case.

The review petition filed by Sasikala and two others  V N Sudhakaran, Jayalalithaa's foster son, and Elavarasi, widow of Sasikala's elder brother has challenged the setting aside of Karnataka High Court verdict acquiting her and restoring the trial court verdict in toto.

Former Tamil Nadu chief minister late J Jayalalithaa was also an accused in the case.The trial court in Bengaluru had convicted Sasikala along with Jayalalithaa, Sudhakaran and Elavarasi in the case for amassing assets disproportionate to their income.

An advocate privy to the review 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 special trial court had found disproportionate assets worth Rs 53.60 crore, which Jayalalithaa and the three others could not account for. The CBI had alleged that the unaccounted wealth was in the tune of Rs 66.65 crore.

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.