Several shops downed their shutters and companies declared holiday in anticipation of violence.
A mob set a bus ablaze in Kancheepuram district while stone pelting at buses was reported from Salem and Madurai.
An AIADMK member was injured while he burnt the effigy of DMK chief M Karunanidhi on the Avinashi Road in Coimbatore while two party cadres attempted suicide. An AIDMK cadre in at Palladam in Tirupur district also attempted suicide.
DMK and AIADMK cadres clashed on the Lloyd’s Road near Gopalapuram. AIADMK men also pelted stones at Subramanian Swamy’s residence at Santhome in Chennai.
Police resorted to massive deployment in sensitive areas in the city as a precautionary measure to avert major law and order break down. They had to resort to lathicharge to control the mob and there were reports of people getting injured in these scuffles.
More tension is expected as AIADMK workers were leaving in groups from the party headquarters on the Lloyd’s Road. Local municipal councillors were leading the protests and road blockades at various parts in Chennai.
Agitated AIADMK members in Trichy stormed into shops and threatened the shopkeepers.
Case trail
1996: Dr Subramanian Swamy, then a leader of Janata Party, files a case against Jayalalithaa alleging that during her tenure as Chief Minister from 1991 to 1996, she amassed properties worth Rs 66.65 crore disproportionate to her known sources of income.
Dec 7, 1996: Jayalalitha arrested. Many allegations follow, including accumulation of disproportionate assets.
1997: A prosecution launched in Additional Sessions Court in Chennai against Jayalalithaa and three others for having assets ‘disproportionate’ to their known income.
June 4, 1997: Charge-sheeted for offences under Sections 120-B IPC, 13(2) read with 13(1)(e) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
October 1, 1997: Madras High Court dismisses three petitions by Jayalalitha including one challenging sanction granted by then Governor M Fathima Beevi for prosecuting her in the wealth case.
Trial progresses By august 2000, 250 prosecution witnesses examined, only 10 more remained.
In the 2001 May Assembly elections, AIADMK secures absolute majority and Jayalalitha becomes Chief Minister. Her appointment is challenged due to her conviction in October, 2000 in the TANSI (Tamil Nadu Small Industries Corporation) case. SC nullifies the appointment.
September 21, 2001: Jayalalithaa ceases to be Chief Minister.
After her conviction is set aside, Jayalalithaa is elected to the Assembly in a bypoll from Andipatti constituency on Feb 21, 2002, and again sworn in as Chief Minister.
Three public prosecutors resign as also senior counsel.
Several prosecution witnesses resile from their earlier depositions after AIADMK returned to power.
2003: DMK general secretary K Anbazhagan approaches Supreme Court for transferring the trial to Karnataka on the ground that a fair trial was not possible in Tamil Nadu with Jayalalithaa as Chief Minister.
On November 18, 2003: The Supreme Court transfered the case to Bangalore
A mob set a bus ablaze in Kancheepuram district while stone pelting at buses was reported from Salem and Madurai.
An AIADMK member was injured while he burnt the effigy of DMK chief M Karunanidhi on the Avinashi Road in Coimbatore while two party cadres attempted suicide. An AIDMK cadre in at Palladam in Tirupur district also attempted suicide.
DMK and AIADMK cadres clashed on the Lloyd’s Road near Gopalapuram. AIADMK men also pelted stones at Subramanian Swamy’s residence at Santhome in Chennai.
Police resorted to massive deployment in sensitive areas in the city as a precautionary measure to avert major law and order break down. They had to resort to lathicharge to control the mob and there were reports of people getting injured in these scuffles.
More tension is expected as AIADMK workers were leaving in groups from the party headquarters on the Lloyd’s Road. Local municipal councillors were leading the protests and road blockades at various parts in Chennai.
Agitated AIADMK members in Trichy stormed into shops and threatened the shopkeepers.
Case trail
1996: Dr Subramanian Swamy, then a leader of Janata Party, files a case against Jayalalithaa alleging that during her tenure as Chief Minister from 1991 to 1996, she amassed properties worth Rs 66.65 crore disproportionate to her known sources of income.
Dec 7, 1996: Jayalalitha arrested. Many allegations follow, including accumulation of disproportionate assets.
1997: A prosecution launched in Additional Sessions Court in Chennai against Jayalalithaa and three others for having assets ‘disproportionate’ to their known income.
June 4, 1997: Charge-sheeted for offences under Sections 120-B IPC, 13(2) read with 13(1)(e) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
October 1, 1997: Madras High Court dismisses three petitions by Jayalalitha including one challenging sanction granted by then Governor M Fathima Beevi for prosecuting her in the wealth case.
Trial progresses By august 2000, 250 prosecution witnesses examined, only 10 more remained.
In the 2001 May Assembly elections, AIADMK secures absolute majority and Jayalalitha becomes Chief Minister. Her appointment is challenged due to her conviction in October, 2000 in the TANSI (Tamil Nadu Small Industries Corporation) case. SC nullifies the appointment.
September 21, 2001: Jayalalithaa ceases to be Chief Minister.
After her conviction is set aside, Jayalalithaa is elected to the Assembly in a bypoll from Andipatti constituency on Feb 21, 2002, and again sworn in as Chief Minister.
Three public prosecutors resign as also senior counsel.
Several prosecution witnesses resile from their earlier depositions after AIADMK returned to power.
2003: DMK general secretary K Anbazhagan approaches Supreme Court for transferring the trial to Karnataka on the ground that a fair trial was not possible in Tamil Nadu with Jayalalithaa as Chief Minister.
On November 18, 2003: The Supreme Court transfered the case to Bangalore