No SC relief for Sasikala in assets

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stay the trial in a disproportionate assets case involving Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaas aide Sasikala Natrajan in a Bangalore court.

A vacation Bench of Justices H L Gokhale and Ranjana Prakash Desai,however,allowed Sasikala to place on record relevant material relating to her claim that she has not been provided with certain documents connected to the questions being put to her in the ongoing day-to-day trial.

We cant give any interim relief and the trial will continue, the Bench observed,but granted two weeks time to Sasikala to place on record the necessary material in support of her contention.

Jaya and others are accused of amassing disproportionate wealth during her tenure as chief minister in 1991-96.

Sasikala approached the Supreme Court after the trial court and Karnataka High Court refused to give her certain documents pertaining to the case.