The Karnataka High Court is now hearing AIADMK Supremo Jayalalithaa's plea seeking immediate bail and suspension of her four-year sentence in an 18-year-old disproportionate assets case.

AIR Correspondent reports that Justice A.V. Chandrashekhar is hearing the case. Advocate Ram Jethmalani is appearing on behalf of Jayalalitha. Many AIADMK supporters have assembled outside the court premises.

Bracing up for the entry of AIADMK supporters and leaders into the city from the Hosur border, the police have tightened security in and around the High Court and Parappana Agrahara Central Prison, where Jayalalithaa is lodged since September 27.

The High Court vacation bench had on October 1 deferred till today pleas of Jayalalithaa and her close aide Sasikala and her relatives V.N.Sudhakaran and Elavarasi, who were also convicted in the case, to be taken by a regular bench after the end of Dussehra vacation.

Section 144 of the Cr.P.C has been clamped within one km radius of the High Court and Parapanna Agrahara Prison, where Sasikala, Sudhakaran and Elavarasi are also lodged.

Meanwhile, the Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Government to ensure public safety and maintain law and order so that no untoward incidents take place in the wake of hearing of bail plea of AIADMK Supremo Jayalalithaa.

The Court also directed that schools and colleges to function as usual today .A special bench of the High Court comprising of Justices S.Vaidyanathan and R.Mahadevan told that the State Government will be held responsible for any untoward incident. Tamil Nadu has witnessed a series of events after the arrest of the former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on the 27th of last month in the Rs 66 crore disproportionate assets case.

Posters slamming the DMK Supremo Karunanidhi, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, Sonia Gandhi and the very judgement of the Karnataka special Court, were displayed all over the city. Chennai Transport services suffered a setback and traders had to close down their shops in support of the ruling party.

PMK founder Dr Ramadoss has demanded the State Government to remove all the portraits of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa from the Secretariat and all government offices immediately. In a statement today, Ramdoss called for removal of her pictures from the Government websites also.