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Sunday, Sep 05, 2004

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Documents being collected amid security, secrecy

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, SEPT. 4. Amid tight security and secrecy, a Karnataka official team is collecting in a special court here records in the ``disproportionate wealth case'' against the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, for being transferred to Bangalore. Entry by outsiders into the court office and the hall has been prohibited. The court staff are allowed into the hall only on a need basis.

Sources said the team had collected documents on deposition tendered by witnesses, including those who virtually turned hostile, but were not declared so. Verification of the list and collection of the documents were still on.

The police were requested to provide protection, the sources said. A Karnataka escort police team already arrived in the city for transporting the documents to Bangalore.

The official team consisting of Venkatesh, Registrar, Vigilance, Karnataka High Court; and Balakrishna, Additional Secretary in the Law Ministry, arrived in the city last Friday and it was later joined by a Tamil-knowing court Sheristadhar, Pitchaimuthu.

On August 23, the Supreme Court ordered that Karnataka collect the records within a week. After a problem arose over the existence of some documents in Tamil, Karnataka approached the Supreme Court, which directed it to take possession of the documents in the existing form for conducting thetrial in Bangalore.

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