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Disproportionate Assets Case: Jayalalithaa and 3 aides convicted

In a verdict which is being viewed as a victory of supremacy of law, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa was today convicted of corruption by a Special Court in Bangalore. Bangalore saw violent protests, outside the Parappana Agrahara jail premises, where the Special Court was set up to try the disproportionate assets case. Earlier this morning, Special Court judge John Michael D’Cunha adjourned the judgment at makeshift court in the Parappana Agrahara prison complex in Bangalore after crowds of AIADMK supporters at the court premises disturbed the proceedings. The case was registered by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption of Tamil Nadu police in 1996, after the present BJP leader Subramanian Swamy moved courts and obtained necessary directions.

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