Workers of Tamil Nadu's ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) party were baton charged and later detained by Bangalore Police here on Saturday for raising slogans in support of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, who is currently in the city to hear the verdict in an almost two-decades-old disproportionate assets case against her.
The protest started from Tamil Nadu's Hosur City, where the police checked a bus for AIADMK supporters on their way to Bangalore. The supporters had also gathered near the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka border.
The AIADMK workers also raised slogans in support of Jayalalithaa outside her residence in Chennai.
The AIADMK chief is accused of obtaining assets worth almost Rs. 66 crores through dishonest means during her first tenure as chief minister from 1991 to 1996.
Her former friend V K Sasikala, V N Sudhakaran and J Illavarasi are co-accused in the case.
On Friday, Jayalalithaa's plea to postpone the pronouncement of the verdict was rejected by the Supreme Court.
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