Go to jail now, Supreme Court tells Sasikala
The Supreme Court has rejected Sasikala Natarajan's request for more time to surrender. The SC said that it had asked her to surrender immediately and it will not change that order.
Senior
counsel
K
T
S
Tulsi
appearing
for
Sasikala
Natarajan
made
repeated
requests
seeking
time
to
surrender.
The
request
made
before
the
Bench
comprising
Justices
P
C
Ghose
and
Amitava
Roy
was
however
rejected.
Justice
Ghose
emphatically
rejected
the
request.
We
do
not
intend
to
change
a
word
of
our
order,
Justice
Ghose
also
said.
The
court
also
did
not
allow
Tulsi
to
complete
his
sentence.
Justice
Ghose
said,
"
immediately
means
immediately."
[Give me time; have personal work: Sasi to tell SC before surrendering]
Karnataka's counsel Dushyanth Dave said that if Sasikala and others do not surrender immediately, they would be arrested. Tulsi once again requested the Bench to take up the plea at 3 pm. However Justice Ghose cut him short again and said, " we do not intend to pass any further orders after we have directed her to surrender immediately.
With this order Sasikala and the two co-convicts Ilavarasi and Sudhakaran will also have to surrender immediately before the trial court in Bengaluru. Sasikala Natarajan moved the Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking more time to surrender before the trial court in Bengaluru. She told the Bench that she has to make some personal arrangements before she can surrender before the court. The Bench while convicting her had directed her to surrender to serve out her four years sentence.
She said that if more time is not granted to her to surrender then it would cause her irreparable loss. She has however not specified what the personal reasons are. A similar application is being filed by her co-convicts Ilavarasi and Sudhakaran.
The matter is likely to mentioned before the Bench at 10.30 am. The same Bench had convicted her on Tuesday holding her guilty in the disproportionate assets case. She along with Ilavarasi and Sudhakaran were ordered to go to jail.
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