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The Supreme Court today said it would pronounce verdict within a week on pleas challenging acquittal of late Tamil Nadu CM, Jayalalithaa. The newly appointed AIADMK general secretary Sasikala Natarajan is also a co-accused in the case. Jayalalithaa was booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act in 1996 for allegedly amassing unaccounted wealth.
The Congress government in Karnataka moved the Supreme Court in 2015 after the state high court acquitted her in the case. A special court in Bengaluru had earlier in 2014 found her guilty and sentenced her to four years imprisonment along with her close aide Sasikala.
Jayalalithaa had to temporarily vacate the chief minister post, but stormed back to power in the 2016 assembly elections.