On Friday, the Supreme Court Ordered Bail to the Former
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Ms. Jayalalithaa in the 66 Crores Wealth Case
disproportionate Asset Case, in which she has been sentenced to undergo Four
Years Imprisonment with 100 Crore Penalty
Along with Jayalalithaa, the three other Accused Sasikala,
Sudhakaran and Ilavarasi were also granted bail on Friday and said that the
four convicts should not delay the trail and must ensure that the papers for
the appeals should be kept ready in two months. The Next hearing will be on
December 18 to give further directions to the Karnataka High Court to dispose
of the appeals within three months, If the papers are ready in two months.
A three-judge Bench of Chief Justice H L Dattu and justices
Madan B lokur and A K Sikri stayed the operation of Sentence imposed by the
trial court on the four accused. The Bench after hearing senior Counsel Fali
Nariman for Ms Jayalalaithaa and Senior Counsel K T S Tulsi for the other three
accused, strictly said that there should not be any delay in the trial case.
The CJI told Mr Nariman that Jayalalithaa and the other
three accused were dragging the case for 18 years and due to which there was no
possibility of the appeal being concluded in even two decades if they were
granted bail. However, Mr Nariman assured the court that the appeal papers
would be ready in two months and the court shall ask the Karnataka High Court
to dispose of the appeals within three months.
Mr Nariman also argued that, when a person is convicted and
sentenced for a fixed period and later when she files a statutory appeal, and
then the suspension has to be considered by the Appellate Court Liberally. The
apex court has held in several judgment that it
would be travesty of justice to keep a person for a substantial period
in jail during the appeal pendency for an offence not have been convicted by
the accused.
