Convicting V K Sasikala and her relatives on Tuesday, the Supreme Court cited several circumstantial evidence that established their roles in abetment and criminal conspiracy.
One of the circumstances was them staying with the late chief minister J Jayalalithaa at her Poes Garden residence. The court said the arrangement was neither for social living nor out of humanitarian concern. “Although A2 to A4 (Sasikala, her nephew V N Sudhakaran and sister-in-law J Elavarasi) claims to have independent sources of income, but the fact of constitution of firms and acquisition of large tracts of land out of the funds provided by

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