The Hindu : Karnataka News : Prosecution clarifies its stand over combining of two wealth cases against Jayalalithaa

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Wednesday, Jun 08, 2005

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Prosecution clarifies its stand over combining of two wealth cases against Jayalalithaa

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The prosecution in the two wealth cases in which the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, is the accused, said a section of the press had not properly reported on June 4 its stand on the consolidation of the two cases.

On Saturday, N. Jothi, counsel for Jayalalithaa, told the Special Court hearing the two cases that he would move the Madras High Court to seek its opinion on its January 10, 2001 order on the hearing of the two cases. While all the accused in the two cases maintained that the High Court order was for consolidating the cases, the prosecution maintained that it could not be done as it would violate both the Supreme Court and Madras High Court orders. B.V. Acharya, Special Public Prosecutor, said he had not objected to Mr. Jothi's decision but had contended "that the Madras High Court will have no jurisdiction to modify or review its earlier order." He said he had relied on the decision of the Supreme Court in this connection (the High Courts have no power to review its earlier order). Mr. Acharya said reports in a section of the press that he had no objection to the matter being raised in the Madras High Court again was not correct.

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