Karnataka HC rejects Jethmalani's plea for early hearing of Jayalalithaa case

The Karnataka High Court has rejected advocate Ram Jethmalani's request for an early hearing of AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa's bail plea, saying the hearing would take place according to the number allotted to the case.

Jayalalithaa has filed a plea for immediate bail and suspension of her four-year jail sentence in connection with an 18-year-old disproportionate assets case.

Meanwhile, people in Chennai protested against the arrest of the former Tamil Nadu chief minister by tonsuring heads and holding processions.

The high court vacation bench had on October 1 deferred the hearing of the bail 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 Criminal Procedure Code has been clamped within a one kilometer radius of the High Court and Parapanna Agrahara Prison, where Sasikala, Sudhakaran and Elavarasi are also lodged.