CHENNAI: Former AIADMK Minister K.A. Sengottaiyan, an accused in the ‘gifts case’ along with former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, has moved the Special Court for CBI Cases here seeking a copy of the over 2,000-page charge sheet translated in Tamil.
Principal Special Judge S. Meenakshisundaram adjourned it to August 8 for further proceedings.
The CBI case is that Ms. Jayalalithaa, when she was Chief Minister, accepted demand drafts, cash and jewellery and claimed them as gifts in her income tax returns. The agency said she accepted 89 demand drafts, worth over Rs. 2 crore, from 57 persons in 1992. The CBI filed the charge sheet on July 31, 2006.
In his petition, Mr. Sengottaiyan said he was not in a position to understand the case or instruct his counsel as over 90 per cent of the contents of the charge sheet was in English.
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