Karnataka High Court rejects Jayalalithaa’s Bail appeal!
Posted on: 07/Oct/2014 4:32:44 PM
Following the verdict in the recent assets accumulation case, Karnataka High Court has rejected the convicted Jayalalithaa’s bail appeal. It had also rejected the bail appeals from Sasikala, Ilavarasi,and Sudhakarn.
Karnataka High Court also rejected Jayalalithaa’s appeal against the sentence.
Judge Chandrasekhar gave the orders.
He stated that persons jailed under the acts of corruption cannot be let out easily and going by the precedents on other corruption cases, there are no chances for granting bail to Jayalalithaa.
The judge also stated that the sentence accorded cannot be stopped.
Karnataka government’s advocate, Mr. Bhavani Singh, had stated earlier that there were no objections to granting bail. Hence, it was expected tht the bail appeal will be granted. However, the judge rejected the bail appeal.
The case for the bail appeal started around 11.30 Am on Tuesday, 7th October. Karnataka High Court announced the rejection of the bail appeal by 3.35 PM.
