From the archive record
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa was convicted and sentenced to four years jail in an 18-year-old corruption case in a judgment that will unseat her from the post, disqualified her immediately as an MLA and can impact the Assembly elections due in 18 months. A lawyer of Supreme Court of India speaks about the corruption case on Indian politician Jayalalitha, he says, "The SMP file which in fact challenges the appointment of the special court by a notification of the state government have been dismissed and the interregnum the Union of India had issued the further notification constituting and allocating these courts in a slightly different manner and that has been quashed so now the cases will go on to the court in which they have been earlier allocated by the High Court of Tamil