CBI seeks sanction from the State Assembly Speaker to prosecute Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa for receiving alleged gifts worth over Rs 2 crores
Media Release
Jun. 25, 2006

After months of bureaucratic wrangling over the issue of granting sanction to prosecute her, the CBI approached the Speaker’s office to seek permission for the same despite obtaining an opinion from the agency’s legal wing that it could to go ahead with filing of a chargesheet as no sanction was required, they said.

The Attorney General and the Union Law ministry, however, opined that the CBI should take legal opinion from the Tamil Nadu Speaker as Jayalalithaa is a member of the Legislative Assembly.

The case was initially registered in 1996 under the Prevention of Corruption Act of 1988 on a complaint by the Director General (Investigations) of Income Tax that related to gifts allegedly received by Jayalalithaa which she had disclosed in her income tax returns. The matter was later transferred to the CBI, which registered a case in 1996 against Jayalalithaa under Section 11 of the Prevention of Corruption Act on the request of the state government.

According to the CBI investigation, Jayalalithaa received 89 demand drafts worth Rs 2 crore drawn on various banks in Tamil Nadu and purchased in the names of 57 people, as well Rs 15 lakh in cash, the sources said.

The cash and drafts were credited to her savings bank account in Canara Bank, Chennai, and these were disclosed by her in income tax returns as gifts.

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