Senior lawyers said that verdict should be a lesson for many other public representatives
Senior Lawyers in Karimnagar have hailed the verdict given to Jayalalitha in dispropotionate assets case
Karimnagar: Many senior lawyers hailed the verdict of the special court in Benguluru for convicting Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case on Saturday. They said the verdict should be a lesson for many other public representatives, belonging to Telangana and charged in similar cases.Gulabeela Malla Reddy, a senior lawyer in Karimnagar city, felt that the judgment was ‘right’ and should serve as a lesson to the public representatives facing similar charges. Mr. Reddy recalled that he fought a case pertaining to one Subrahmanyan, a worker belonging to Tamil Naidu, who died in a road accident in Karimnagar district in 1988.
After the trails, a district sessions court delivered the verdict and ordered the accused to pay Rs50,000 as compensation to the kin of the deceased. The then Chief Minister Jayalali-thaa’s principal secretary wrote to the AP High Court seeking its help in meting out justice to the kin of Subrahmanyan.“It is a warning to all politicians. The verdict reflects the vigilant role played by the judiciary. It should be a welcome move for the country’s progress,” observed another senior lawyer M. Anil Kumar. He felt that such path-breaking verdicts would free the Indian democracy of many corruption politicians.
“It is good that the Supreme Court had recognised that mobilising disproportionate assets is a crime,” he said. Commenting on the verdict, senior lawyer P. Lachi Reddy said every culprit had to be punished.
He said that he had not gone through the details of the case but felt that people should not fear filing petitions against corrupt elected represenatives as political graft has become a stumbling block in the path of progress in the country./process become a major concern for the country.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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