J Jayalalithaa Da Case Verdict

Within hours of being found guilty of corruption, VK Sasikala stepped on the gas to name a new leader for her party, the AIADMK. Edappadi K Palaniswami, 57, who is Minister of the Public Works Department, is the new chief of the ruling party of Tamil Nadu. He has written to Governor C Vidyasagar Rao asking for the chance to prove his majority in t...

The corruption case in which VK Sasikala has been convicted today was, in fact, centered on whether J Jayalalithaa misused her first term as Chief Minister in the 1990s to accumulate a vast fortune of real estate, cash and jewellery through a maze of companies which were owned by Ms Sasikala and two of her male relatives.

AIADMK general secretary VK Sasikala has been ordered to serve a four-year jail term in a 21-year-old disproportionate assets case by the Supreme Court, ending her wait for an invitation from Tamil Nadu's Raj Bhavan to take over as the chief minister. She will, instead, go to jail. The court did not rule on charges against former chief minister J J...

The Supreme Court bench of Justices PC Ghosh and Amitava Roy, concurrently, held AIADMK general secretary VK Sasikala guilty of helping former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa amass illicit wealth worth over 60 crores in the 1990s and has sentenced her to four years imprisonment.

It took eight minutes for two Supreme Court judges to announce the decision that abruptly cut short the political career of VK Sasikala, a long-time companion of J Jayalalithaa. The judges concurred when they held Ms Sasikala guilty of corruption and decided that she has to go to back to jail to serve a four-year sentence. "We have expressed deep c...

VK Sasikala has been found guilty of corruption by the Supreme Court and will have to surrender to the police in Chennai so that she can be jailed for four years. This ends her high-decibel and divisive bid to be Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu - she is now barred from contesting an election for the next ten years. At 10:30 am on Tuesday, two judges o...

In a rare public appearance this morning, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha was present at a function to officially rename Chennai's Adyar IV Main Road, to B Ramachandra Adithanar, in a bid to woo the Nadar community ahead of the state assembly elections next year.

Days after securing a thumping victory in the RK Nagar bypoll, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today took oath as MLA.

For the first time since she was acquitted in a corruption case, J Jayalalithaa will appear in public on Friday in Chennai.

An AIADMK legislator resigned from the Tamil Nadu Assembly today, sparking speculation that party chief J Jayalalithaa may contest from there to stake her claim to form the government, after the Karnataka High Court recently overturned her conviction in the disproportionate assets case.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi phoned AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa to congratulate on her acquittal in a corruption case, which has cleared the decks for her return as Tamil Nadu chief minister

J Jayalalithaa has said that today's high court verdict acquitting her in a corruption case "has paved the way for me to emerge as tested pure gold." Her party, the ruling AIADMK, is planning her return as chief minister of Tamil Nadu, with speculation that it could seek early elections in the state.

J Jayalalithaa, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, is at her Poes Garden residence in Chennai, where hundreds of supporters are now celebrating with news coming in of her acquittal by the Karnataka High Court in a conviction in a corruption case.

J Jayalalithaa, the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, has been acquitted in a corruption case that had led to her being jailed and can now return to office. O Panneerselvam, who was installed as her replacement, is expected to resign soon, said sources.

Within hours of being found guilty of corruption, VK Sasikala stepped on the gas to name a new leader for her party, the AIADMK. Edappadi K Palaniswami, 57, who is Minister of the Public Works Department, is the new chief of the ruling party of Tamil Nadu. He has written to Governor C Vidyasagar Rao asking for the chance to prove his majority in t...

The corruption case in which VK Sasikala has been convicted today was, in fact, centered on whether J Jayalalithaa misused her first term as Chief Minister in the 1990s to accumulate a vast fortune of real estate, cash and jewellery through a maze of companies which were owned by Ms Sasikala and two of her male relatives.

AIADMK general secretary VK Sasikala has been ordered to serve a four-year jail term in a 21-year-old disproportionate assets case by the Supreme Court, ending her wait for an invitation from Tamil Nadu's Raj Bhavan to take over as the chief minister. She will, instead, go to jail. The court did not rule on charges against former chief minister J J...

The Supreme Court bench of Justices PC Ghosh and Amitava Roy, concurrently, held AIADMK general secretary VK Sasikala guilty of helping former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa amass illicit wealth worth over 60 crores in the 1990s and has sentenced her to four years imprisonment.

It took eight minutes for two Supreme Court judges to announce the decision that abruptly cut short the political career of VK Sasikala, a long-time companion of J Jayalalithaa. The judges concurred when they held Ms Sasikala guilty of corruption and decided that she has to go to back to jail to serve a four-year sentence. "We have expressed deep c...

VK Sasikala has been found guilty of corruption by the Supreme Court and will have to surrender to the police in Chennai so that she can be jailed for four years. This ends her high-decibel and divisive bid to be Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu - she is now barred from contesting an election for the next ten years. At 10:30 am on Tuesday, two judges o...

In a rare public appearance this morning, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha was present at a function to officially rename Chennai's Adyar IV Main Road, to B Ramachandra Adithanar, in a bid to woo the Nadar community ahead of the state assembly elections next year.

Days after securing a thumping victory in the RK Nagar bypoll, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today took oath as MLA.

For the first time since she was acquitted in a corruption case, J Jayalalithaa will appear in public on Friday in Chennai.

An AIADMK legislator resigned from the Tamil Nadu Assembly today, sparking speculation that party chief J Jayalalithaa may contest from there to stake her claim to form the government, after the Karnataka High Court recently overturned her conviction in the disproportionate assets case.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi phoned AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa to congratulate on her acquittal in a corruption case, which has cleared the decks for her return as Tamil Nadu chief minister

J Jayalalithaa has said that today's high court verdict acquitting her in a corruption case "has paved the way for me to emerge as tested pure gold." Her party, the ruling AIADMK, is planning her return as chief minister of Tamil Nadu, with speculation that it could seek early elections in the state.

J Jayalalithaa, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, is at her Poes Garden residence in Chennai, where hundreds of supporters are now celebrating with news coming in of her acquittal by the Karnataka High Court in a conviction in a corruption case.

J Jayalalithaa, the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, has been acquitted in a corruption case that had led to her being jailed and can now return to office. O Panneerselvam, who was installed as her replacement, is expected to resign soon, said sources.