Sasikala’s review plea dismissed

New Delhi, August 23 

The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea of jailed AIADMK leader VK Sasikala seeking review of its verdict convicting and sentencing her to a four-year jail term in a disproportionate assets case.

The apex court also rejected her plea for an open court hearing of the review petitions. “We do not find any error in the common judgment impugned, much less an apparent error on the face of the record, so as to call for its review. The review petitions are, accordingly, dismissed,” a Bench of Justices SA Bobde and Amitava Roy.

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Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, representing Sasikala and other convicts, gave written submissions and propositions which were taken on record by the top court. The apex court perused the review petitions and dismissed the pleas filed by Sasikala and other convicts in the case. Besides Sasikala and two others—VN Sudhakaran, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s foster son, and Elavarasi, widow of Sasikala’s elder brother—had challenged the setting aside of a Karnataka High Court verdict acquitting her and restoring the trial court verdict in totality.

Late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister 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 known sources of income. — PTI