Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's close aide Sasikala Natarajan on Saturday claimed in a special court here that DMK chief M Karunanidhi had in 1996 offered to exclude her from the wealth case against the AIADMK supremo if she turned against her. ...
06:37 PM, Dec 22, 2012
Bangalore: The Special Court on Thursday adjourned the recording of statement of Sasikala Natarajan, estranged aide and co-accused in the wealth case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa till hearing of an application filed by Sasikala's counsel on Friday. When the Special Court commenced proceedings, Sasikala's counsel C Manishankhar filed an application under 207, 243(2) of CrPC read with Rule 2 of Chapter 14 of Karnataka Criminal Rules of...
07:02 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Bangalore: Sasikala Natarajan, estranged aide and co-accused in the wealth case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, on Wednesday told the special court that the Chennai Police violated a court order during the raids conducted at the latter's residence in 1996. She was responding to a question regarding valuable watches that were seized during the raids at Jayalalithaa's Poes Garden Residence. Police had violated the court order in taking the...
05:03 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Bangalore: Sasikala Natarajan, estranged aide of Jayalalithaa on Saturday charged police with threatening a witness to frame the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister in a land purchase deal in the wealth case. Deposing before special court judge BM Mallikarjunaiah, trying the disproportionate asset case against Jayalalithaa, Sasikala, the second accused, said the witness, who is the land owner, had given "false evidence" before the court, dragging in Jayalalithaa's name as he...
07:14 PM, Feb 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to entertain "at this stage" the plea of Sasikala Natarajan, estranged close aide of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to provide her translated copies in Tamil of the proceedings before the special Bangalore trial court in a disproportionate assets case. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and BS Chauhan felt since the trial court had adequate language interpreters there was no...
08:44 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Monday welcomed AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa's decision to expel Sasikala and her relatives from her party. "The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister's decision will now enable her to give clean governance and to use her intellect for making the state prosperous and law abiding," he said in a statement. Jayalalithaa on Monday expelled her close aide VK Sasikala and her husband M Natarajan besides...
04:42 PM, Dec 19, 2011
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Monday expelled her long time close aide Sasikala Natarajan from the AIADMK. Jayalalithaa has also expelled 11 other members including all relatives of Sasikala from the party. There was no clarity as to why the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister has taken this step. Sasikala was a co-accused with Jayalalithaa in a disproportionate assets case being tried by a Bangalore court. Sasikala has been...
01:44 PM, Dec 19, 2011
New Delhi: In the disproportionate case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, the special court in Bangalore will on Thursday record the statement of Sasikala Natarajan, the second accused in the case. Jayalalithaa is accused of amassing 66 crore of assets during her term as CM in 1991-1996. Meanwhile, Kerala opposition leader Achutanandan has also asked Jayalalithaa to disclose names of Kerala politicians who had allegedly acquired vast stretches...
08:48 AM, Dec 08, 2011
