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Tuesday, Jul 25, 2006

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Court to hear Jayalalithaa's petitions together

Special Correspondent

"It will avoid duplication of arguments" The matter relates to the non-filing of IT returns by Jayalalithaa and Sasikalaa for the assessment year 1993-94

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court will hear together former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's revision petition challenging the dismissal of her discharge plea from the income tax cases, and her new writ petitions questioning the constitutional validity of the IT Act provisions.

The direction was issued by the First Bench comprising Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice D. Murugesan, when N. Jothi, counsel for Ms. Jayalalithaa, said hearing the matter together would avoid duplication of arguments and conflicting rulings.

K. Ramasamy, Senior Special Public Prosecutor for the Income Tax Department, however, argued that such a plea should be considered only after both the petitions were admitted by the court concerned.

The matter relates to the non-filing of IT returns by Ms. Jayalalithaa and Ms. Sasikalaa for the assessment year 1993-94.

In the other case, besides Sasi Enterprises, the two again failed to file returns in their capacity as partners of the firm, for the assessment years 1991-92 and 1992-93.

Case to be heard tomorrow

The case is scheduled to come up before the Economic Offences Court-I for further proceedings on Wednesday.

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