CHENNAI, JUNE 27: ``The failure on the part of the investigating officer A A Jambukumaran to show to me the TANSI sale documents proved that they were forged,'' former chief minister J Jayalalitha said today.Replying to a query in the TANSI case relating to Jaya Publications, Jayalalitha said that if he had shown the documents at the time of investigations, she would have told him then itself that the signatures in the documents were not hers,'' she told Special Court-III judge P Anbazhagan.``Jambukumaran is duty-bound to explain how he filed the forged documents in the court,'' Jayalalitha said.To another question, Jayalalitha said that the then Industries Secretary Latika D Padalkar was not victimised. She wanted to go on leave in connection with the marriage of her daughter and the leave was granted. Since the post, an important one, could not be kept vacant for long, another person was posted, she said adding that there was no complaint, either from Padalkar herself or from the IAS Officers' Association in this connection.To yet another question, Jayalalitha replied that the original complaint was filed by Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy. The then governor M Chenna Reddy, with dubious political motives, accorded sanction to prosecute her. She challenged the sanction order and the matter was still pending before a constitution bench of the Supreme Court. Such being the case, the sanction obtained by the State Government from the present Governor on the same case was not valid, she said.As regards Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Jayalalitha said, ``The Supreme Court has clearly stated that this section is not applicable to me in the case.'' The State Government had also accepted it. ``Hence, I do not understand why a question relating to Section 420 IPC is being put to me,'' she said.``I don't know'' was the stock reply with which N Sasikala, the second accused in the case, fielded the questions. She, however, said in her written statement that the case had been foisted out of political vendetta.After completion of the questioning the judge said that questioning in the case relating to Sasi Enterprises will be taken up on June 30.
