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| Jayalalithaa Gets Four Years Jail |
| Jayalalithaa Gets Four Years in Jail for Corruption, Fined 100 Crores
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| INDIA
, 27-September-2014
12:11:2 PM |
| Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has been sentenced to four years in jail after a Bangalore court found her guilty of corruption on Saturday. court has also imposed a fine of Rs. 100 crore on Ms Jayalalitha, who has been taken to Bangalore's central jail for a medical check up. She is expected to be sent to jail this evening.
1Ms Jayalalithaa, who is 66, will have to resign as Chief Minister - she stands disqualified as a legislator. The Supreme Court ruled last year that a convicted law-maker can't continue as MP or MLA and shall be disqualified from office.
2She is also now barred by law from contesting elections for the next 10 years - six years after the completion of her sentence - unless today's judgement is reversed by a higher court. She is the first chief minister to be disqualified.
3Tamil Nadu is tense as angry supporters of the chief minister and her AIADMK forced shops to close in some parts of the state and burnt effigies of leaders of the rival DMK. Stones were thrown at the Chennai residence of DMK chief M Karunanidhi.
4An NDTV team was attacked by AIADMK activists outside Ms Jayalalithaa's residence in Poes Garden, Chennai. Protesters damaged the crew's equipment and the Outdoor Broadcast van outside Ms Jayalalithaa's residence in Poes Garden in Chennai. NDTV's Uma Sudhir reported that the workers targeted the crew deliberately, broke their camera and called women workers who threw stones at the team.
5Ms Jayalalithaa flew from Chennai to Bangalore this morning to attend the hearing, which took place in a makeshift court created at the Central Jail on the outskirts of the city.
6The case against her is 18 years old and was filed originally by Subramanian Swamy, now a BJP leader. It was pursued by Jayalalithaa's arch rival, the DMK, after it came to power in Tamil Nadu.
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