Court adjourns hearing on Jayalalithaa wealth case

Bangalore, July 29: Special Court Judge A T Manoli today adjourned to September two the Rs 66 crore wealth case against Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and All India Anna DMK Supremo J Jayalalitha and others.

The adjournment was necessitated as a petition was pending before the Supreme Court against clubbing of two cases.

While in one case Ms Jayalalithaa, her confident N Sashikala and her relatives V N Sudhakaran and Ilavarasi were involved in another case Mr T T V Dhinakaran, former MP, was the accused.

The cases, filed by the then DMK General Secretary K Anbazhagan, now a Minister in Karunanidhi Government in Tamil Nadu, alleged that Ms Jayalalithaa was owning properties disproportionate to her known source of income.

UNI