Face off, Supreme Court convicts Sasikala

TIL Desk/National/Chennai/ AIADMK General Secretary V K Sasikala was today convicted by the Supreme Court which set aside the Karnataka High Court verdict acquitting her in the 19-year-old disproportionate assets case that also involved late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.

The apex court restored in toto the judgement and the findings of the trial court in Bengaluru which had held guilty all the accused including Sasikala’s two relatives, V N Sudhakaran and Elavarasi.

VK Sasikala heads to jail for four years. She cannot become Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu after the Supreme Court decided today to convict her and two others in a corruption case. She received the news at a heavily-guarded luxury resort near Chennai, where she had stayed the night along with lawmakers camped there for five days.

Reports say that Sasikala broke down after the verdict, but addressed the MLAs at the resort where she is holed up with them since last night. The AIADMK’s official Twitter handle posts: In the past whenever Amma was in crisis, I also suffered this time also I will take it upon me. ‘Dharma’ will win. Reports now say that 11 more MLAs are in touch with the OPS camp. He already has eight MLAs who pledged their allegiance to him.