SC to conduct day-to-day hearing in Jaya’s DA case

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to conduct day-to-day hearing on appeals filed against the Karnataka high court judgement, acquitting Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa and three others in a disproportionate assets case.

A Bench, while admitting the appeals in July had not gone into the issue of staying the HC order, asked the parties concerned to give it the list of issues, which as per them, needed to be decided in the case on January 8.

“Both of you (parties) settle among yourselves and give us the issues need to be decided by us, so that it can be heard quickly and disposed of at the earliest,” the Bench said, adding that it would hear the matter on “day-to-day basis”. The Bench said the preliminary issues, which need to be decided, be given to it soon.

On July 27, the SC had issued notices on the Karnataka government’s appeal, seeking stay of the high court judgement, to Jayalalithaa, her aide Sasikala and two of her relatives – VN Sudhakaran and Elavarasi – and asked them to file their replies within eight weeks.

Meanwhile, the Bench, which has allowed an intervention application by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy in the matter, also asked him to file issues he wished to press before them. The Karnataka HC order had on May 11 ruled that the AIADMK chief’s conviction by the special court suffered from infirmity and was not sustainable in law, clearing the decks for her return as CM.