Tremors in Tamil Politics.,1st CM to be convicted under prevention of corruption Act.,
Bangalore: -Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has been convicted by a special court in Bangalore in the 18-year-old Rs 66.65 crore disproportionate assets case against her. This verdict will have huge ramifications on the state polity and her government. leaving her AIADMK party stunned and casting a massive shadow on her political future. she has been convicted to 4 years in prison and a Rs.100 crore fine under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Jayalalithaa, 66, now stands to lose the chief minister’s post, and will be disqualified as MLA, a blow to her party and a boost for rival DMK in the run-up to the 2016 Tamil Nadu assembly elections.Special judge John Michael D’Cunha also convicted Jayalalithaa’s close aide Sasikala Natarajan, her niece Ilavarasi and her nephew and the chief minister’s disowned foster son Sudhakaran. They were found guilty of acquiring Rs. 66.65 crore worth of assets by corrupt means between 1991 and 1996 during Jayalalithaa’s first tenure as CM.
