Bengaluru: Soon after the Karnataka HC on Tuesday rejected applications of former Tamil Nadu CM J. Jayalalithaa and three others seeking bail and suspension of sentence against them, a resident of Erode district has filed a writ petition before the HC questioning the special court order against Jayalalithaa and others.
The petitioner, P.R. Sathayanarayanan, has stated that, “The special court has failed to consider the scope and object of the SC to conduct a free and fair trial. Once the trial is conducted and decided, the convicted persons shall be remanded only in Chennai prison and not in Bengaluru prison. Because the entire cause of action arose only in Chennai.”
It further adds that the object of transfer by Supreme Court was for fair trial but in this case the learned special court judge hasn’t even given sufficient time to argue the quantum of sentence and snatched the de facto head of another state abruptly and left the people of Tamil Nadu in the lurch. “So many new schemes and development of Tamil Nadu revolve around Ms Jayalalithaa and in her absence all the schemes will suffer,” it states.
It questions the order of the trial on various legal grounds and while seeking interim relief, the petitioner pleads the court to keep the order of special court in abeyance. The court has adjourned the matter to Friday.
