: A special court here today permitted DMK leader K Anbazhagan to file written arguments and present them to render such assistance which the Special Public Prosecutor may require in the disproportionate assets case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.
Declining Anbazhagan's plea to address oral arguments, Special Court Judge M S Balakrishna permitted the DMK General Secretary to file a memo of written arguments and present them before the court.
Balakrishna, before whom Anbazhagan had filed the application, posted the matter for August 23 for further hearing. The DMK functionary had sought permission to assist SPP Bhavani Singh and the prosecution in the ongoing trial.
The court had on August 14 asked the SPP to file objections to the application by Anbazhagan, on whose plea the case was transferred by the Supreme Court to Karnataka in November 2003.
Anbazhagan had contended that Singh was appointed as SPP recently to handle the case and was not fully conversant with the evidence, and also the entire facts of the case.
He had apprehended that Singh would not be able to assist the court to the fullest and was 'handicapped by ignorance' of the full and actual facts due to his recent appointment.
Jayalalithaa has been charged with accumulating Rs 66.65 crore wealth disproportionate to her known sources of income when she was Chief Minister for the first time from 1991 to 1996.
