347: Jayalalithaa’s Post-Bail Options and Outlook
S Narayan, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, ISAS
21 October 2014
The
order by India’s
Supreme Court
, on 17 October 2014,
suspending the sentence and
granting bail to Ms J Jayalalitha
a
, former Chief Minister of
the state of
Tamil Nadu
–
in a
disproportionate
-
assets
case
under the Prevention of Corruption Act
–
has been greeted with
great jubilation all over Tamil Nadu. The S
upreme Court, in granting the bail, has asked her
counsel to ensure that the appeal is filed in six weeks, and has commented critically on the
long time that the trial has taken