The Karnataka government today moved the Supreme Court challenging the state high court’s verdict acquitting Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, her aide Sasikala Natrajan and two others in a case of disproportionate assets. The Karnataka government has urged the apex court to stay the operati...

The Karnataka government today decided to appeal in the Supreme Court against the acquittal of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case. “The state cabinet has accepted the recommendation of the special public prosecutor (BV Acharya) and state advocate general (Ra...

“Yes I have recommended saying it is a fit case for appeal” for the Karnataka government special prosecutor BV Acharya, who was responsible for getting the initial trial court verdict against J Jayalalithaa, told the Times of India as well as the Hindu Businessline . Acharya had said earlier this we...

As Vikram Hegde explained in a Legally India column on Livemint yesterday, former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa was acquitted by the Karnataka high court in appeal because it found that only 8 per cent of her assets were illegal (because there was no proof of their origin).

Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) BV Acharya on Monday expressed reservation over the acquittal of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa in the 18-year-old disproportionate assets’ case by the Karnataka high court without considering his submission. “I expected the high court to conform to t...