Jayalalithaa Corruption Case

The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has filed a chargesheet in a case relating to alleged irregularities and preferential treatment provided to VK Sasikala, the close aide of former Tamil Nadu chief minister late J Jayalalithaa, at the Central Prison.

Former AIADMK leader VK Sasikala's health condition is stable, the hospital where the former aide of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa is admitted, saidtoday giving update on her status moments before her release from jail. The 63-year-old, who is serving jail sentence in a corruption case, was admitted to the Victoria hospital after sh...

Late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's aide VK Sasikala, serving a four-year term in a corruption case in Bengaluru, may be released from jail next January provided she paid the fine amount of Rs 10 crore, Karnataka Prison department has said.

Retired Supreme Court judge Pinaki Chandra Ghose is set to be appointed as the country's first Lokpal, or the anti-corruption ombudsman, sources said today.

A portrait of J Jayalalithaa took prime spot inside the Tamil Nadu assembly today amid strong objections by the opposition DMK and the Congress, which boycotted the event. Jayalalithaa's portrait has been put up in the assembly gallery and stands apart from the 10 other images inside the assembly, of chief ministers and Tamil Nadu icons.

A petition filed by AIADMK's VK Sasikala -- seeking review of her 4-year-jail term following conviction in a corruption case -- was deferred today after a judge who was to hear it, recused. Justice Rohinton Nariman, who was part of the two-judge bench withdrew after Sasikala pointed out that his father, eminent jurist and constitutional expert Fali...

A day before the Supreme Court takes up AIADMK leader VK Sasikala petition against her conviction, the Tamil Nadu politician sentenced to four years in jail has asked that the top court's Justice Rohinton Nariman should not hear her case.

Sidelined AIADMK leader TTV Dinakaran, who was released on bail last week in a corruption case, stressed today that he remains number two in Tamil Nadu's ruling party and it is his "duty" to unite the party. To that end, Mr Dinakaran said, he would meet his aunt VK Sasikala at a jail in Bengaluru today, "not as a nephew but as her deputy" and start...

Days after her nephew TTV Dinakaran found himself behind bars in Delhi, AIADMK general secretary VK Sasikala is making a bid to get out of the Bengaluru jail where she is serving a four-year jail term. On Wednesday, Sasikala filed a review petition against her conviction by the Supreme Court that had hauled her off to jail in February, arguing that...

J Jayalalithaa, former Tamil Nadu chief minister, will not be declared a convict in a corruption case, the Supreme Court said today, rejecting Karnataka's request.

The Karnataka government moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday seeking a review of its verdict that did not rule on Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa's role in the disproportionate assets case. The state argued that it would be impossible to recover the 100 crore penalty imposed by the court unless she too was held guilty.

Contending that she had been convicted in a corruption case, the DMK today called for government schemes named after former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to be renamed and portraits of her removed from offices. DMK Working President and Leader of Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly M K Stalin also protested "the use of taxpayers' money...

E Palaniswami today won the trust vote in the Tamil Nadu Assembly after the house witnessed chaos and violence. He won 122 votes with only 11 rebels of his AIADMK voting against him. He needed the backing of at least 117 legislators in the 234-member State Assembly. Mr Palaniswami took oath on Thursday with a 30-member cabinet. He is widely seen as...

VK Sasikala, on Wednesday evening, drove up to a prison in Bengaluru where she has been sentenced to four years in prison for corruption in a case that involves J Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister who died in December and was the leader of Tamil Nadu's ruling party, the AIADMK.

A team led by Edappadi Palanisamy, handpicked by VK Sasikala as the AIADMK's presumptive Chief Minister, met Tamil Nadu Governor C Vidyasagar Rao on Wednesday evening and said it expects him to invite them today to form government in the state. The Governor later met O Panneerselvam, who too has staked claim to the top post. Ms Sasikala has reached...

The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has filed a chargesheet in a case relating to alleged irregularities and preferential treatment provided to VK Sasikala, the close aide of former Tamil Nadu chief minister late J Jayalalithaa, at the Central Prison.

Former AIADMK leader VK Sasikala's health condition is stable, the hospital where the former aide of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa is admitted, saidtoday giving update on her status moments before her release from jail. The 63-year-old, who is serving jail sentence in a corruption case, was admitted to the Victoria hospital after sh...

Late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's aide VK Sasikala, serving a four-year term in a corruption case in Bengaluru, may be released from jail next January provided she paid the fine amount of Rs 10 crore, Karnataka Prison department has said.

Retired Supreme Court judge Pinaki Chandra Ghose is set to be appointed as the country's first Lokpal, or the anti-corruption ombudsman, sources said today.

A portrait of J Jayalalithaa took prime spot inside the Tamil Nadu assembly today amid strong objections by the opposition DMK and the Congress, which boycotted the event. Jayalalithaa's portrait has been put up in the assembly gallery and stands apart from the 10 other images inside the assembly, of chief ministers and Tamil Nadu icons.

A petition filed by AIADMK's VK Sasikala -- seeking review of her 4-year-jail term following conviction in a corruption case -- was deferred today after a judge who was to hear it, recused. Justice Rohinton Nariman, who was part of the two-judge bench withdrew after Sasikala pointed out that his father, eminent jurist and constitutional expert Fali...

A day before the Supreme Court takes up AIADMK leader VK Sasikala petition against her conviction, the Tamil Nadu politician sentenced to four years in jail has asked that the top court's Justice Rohinton Nariman should not hear her case.

Sidelined AIADMK leader TTV Dinakaran, who was released on bail last week in a corruption case, stressed today that he remains number two in Tamil Nadu's ruling party and it is his "duty" to unite the party. To that end, Mr Dinakaran said, he would meet his aunt VK Sasikala at a jail in Bengaluru today, "not as a nephew but as her deputy" and start...

Days after her nephew TTV Dinakaran found himself behind bars in Delhi, AIADMK general secretary VK Sasikala is making a bid to get out of the Bengaluru jail where she is serving a four-year jail term. On Wednesday, Sasikala filed a review petition against her conviction by the Supreme Court that had hauled her off to jail in February, arguing that...

J Jayalalithaa, former Tamil Nadu chief minister, will not be declared a convict in a corruption case, the Supreme Court said today, rejecting Karnataka's request.

The Karnataka government moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday seeking a review of its verdict that did not rule on Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa's role in the disproportionate assets case. The state argued that it would be impossible to recover the 100 crore penalty imposed by the court unless she too was held guilty.

Contending that she had been convicted in a corruption case, the DMK today called for government schemes named after former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to be renamed and portraits of her removed from offices. DMK Working President and Leader of Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly M K Stalin also protested "the use of taxpayers' money...

E Palaniswami today won the trust vote in the Tamil Nadu Assembly after the house witnessed chaos and violence. He won 122 votes with only 11 rebels of his AIADMK voting against him. He needed the backing of at least 117 legislators in the 234-member State Assembly. Mr Palaniswami took oath on Thursday with a 30-member cabinet. He is widely seen as...

VK Sasikala, on Wednesday evening, drove up to a prison in Bengaluru where she has been sentenced to four years in prison for corruption in a case that involves J Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister who died in December and was the leader of Tamil Nadu's ruling party, the AIADMK.

A team led by Edappadi Palanisamy, handpicked by VK Sasikala as the AIADMK's presumptive Chief Minister, met Tamil Nadu Governor C Vidyasagar Rao on Wednesday evening and said it expects him to invite them today to form government in the state. The Governor later met O Panneerselvam, who too has staked claim to the top post. Ms Sasikala has reached...