March 16, 2010 7:41 PM

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SC to hear Jayalalitha's plea on disproportionate assets case on Friday

The Supreme Court today decided to hear on Friday AIADMK Supremo Jayalalitha's plea seeking quashing of proceedings against her in a 14-year-old disproportionate assets case.<br/><br/>The former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister has challenged last Wednesday's order the Karnataka High Court which held that the trial court order taking congnisance of the complaint on June 5, 1997, did not suffer from any illegality or irregularity.<br/><br/>A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, accepted the plea of Jayalalithaa's counsel that the trial court in Karnataka should not go ahead with the proceedings on Thurseday for commencing the day-to-day trial.<br/><br/>The case was transferred to a Bangalore court by the Supreme Court in 2003 during her chief ministership on a petition by DMK leader K Anbazhagan saying the manner in which the Chennai trial court had proceeded with the cases raised doubts over a free and fair trial.

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