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SC adjourns DMK petition against Jayalalithaa

By J. Venkatesan

NEW DELHI Aug. 4. The Supreme Court today adjourned to September 1 further proceedings in the petition filed by the DMK for transfer of two wealth cases against the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, N. Sasikalaa, Ilavarasi, V.N. Sudhakaran and AIADMK MP, T.T.V. Dinakaran, to a court outside Tamil Nadu.

On February 28, the court while staying the proceedings in the two cases pending before a special court in Chennai had ordered notice to the Tamil Nadu Government, Ms. Jayalalithaa and the others.

On April 28, notice was issued to the Centre on an application from the DMK seeking to implead the Union Government in the transfer petition.

The petitioner, K. Anbazhagan, DMK general secretary, had contended that there would be no fair trial if the two wealth cases were conducted in Chennai under the regime of Ms. Jayalalithaa, and hence they should be tried in a court outside Tamil Nadu.

A Bench, comprising Justice S.N. Variava and Justice H.K. Sema, today adjourned the proceedings even as Ms. Jayalalithaa strongly opposed the DMK's application as well as the Janata Party president, Subramanian Swamy's application seeking to implead himself in support of the DMK.

Ms. Jayalalithaa, the State Government and the others had filed their responses stating that the DMK had "misled" the court and obtained an interim stay. Describing the DMK's move as an "abuse" of the judicial process, they had prayed for vacating the stay.

Opposing the move to implead the Centre, Ms. Jayalalithaa said it was an attempt to delay the process by taking advantage of the interim order obtained by suppressing material facts.

She said that at no point of time had she ever attempted to influence the due course of trial and the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-corruption was not under her control.

Contending that the Union of India, Tamil Nadu and the State Director- General of Police were not necessary parties, she pleaded for the dismissal of the application.

She also opposed Dr. Swamy's application saying it was politically motivated.

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