Jaya case: court continues recording prosecution witness

A special court here today continued to record the statements of prosecution witnesses in the disproportionate assets case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and three others.
The statements were recorded before Special Court Judge John Michael Cunha.
The court has recorded statements of 224 witnesses out of the total of 259 presented by Special Public Prosecutor Bhavani Singh, who had begun the final arguments in the last week of March.
The court on February 28 had asked him to resume the final arguments in the case in which Jayalalithaa has been charged with accumulating Rs 66 crore wealth disproportionate to known sources of income in 1991-95 when she was chief minister.

Cunha had imposed a cost amounting to Rs 60,000 to Rs 65,000 twice on Singh after he pleaded for adjournment on the grounds of ill health.
The Judge today posted the matter for May 5.