New Delhi: The Supreme Court disposed off a petition seeking to prevent AIADMK general secretary VK Sasikala from holding post of Tamil Nadu chief minister as she was convicted in a disproportionate assets case.
The AIADMK chief Sasikala was on February 15 sent to jail after she surrendered before a trial court, a day after the Supreme Court restored her conviction in the disproportionate assets case.
Sasikala, close aide of Jayalalithaa for almost three decades, had been in the jail in 1996 when the case was registered and later in 2014 after the Special trial court convicted and awarded a four-year sentence with a fine of Rs 10 crore. Jayalalithaa was then awarded four-year jail term, besides a fine of Rs 100 crore.
The apex court verdict means Sasikala cannot hold public office or contest elections for 10 years, the period of her jail term plus six years after that.
The 59-year-old returned to the Central Jail on the city's southern outskirts a week ago to serve a four-year sentence upheld by the Supreme Court after she was held guilty of corruption in a two-decade-old wealth case.
A trial court had first held her guilty in September 2014 in Bengaluru.
