Bengaluru court orders Karnataka to transfer Jayalalithaa’s jewellery to TN
Hindustan TimesBengaluru: A special court in Bengaluru ruled that valuable jewellery, worth crores, seized during the disproportionate assets case against the late former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, J Jayalalithaa should be returned to the Tamil Nadu government. The court also ordered that the Tamil Nadu government must pay ₹5 crore in compensation to Karnataka for the expenses incurred in conducting the disproportionate assets case. Judge H A Mohan, presiding over the 32 additional city civil and sessions court, gave the order after hearing a plea filed by RTI activist T Narasimha Murthy seeking compensation for the amount spent by the Karnataka government in the disproportionate assets case through the auction of items seized from Jayalalithaa. The court then issued the direction that the Tamil Nadu Home Department authorise “competent persons preferably in the rank of secretary along with police to come and collect the jewels.” On September 27, 2014, a special court in Bengaluru had sentenced Jayalalithaa to four years in jail and fined her ₹100 crore in connection with a disproportionate assets case.