The Bangalore special court has delivered its verdict and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa gets four-year jail term and Rupees 100 crores fine in the 1996 Rs 66 crores disproportionate assets case. With this decision, Jayalalithaa gets automatically disqualified as MLA for six years and so we can expect a new chief minister for Tamil Nadu.

Along with Jayalalithaa, her close aide Sasikala Natarajan, her niece Ilavarasi and her nephew and the chief minister's disowned foster son Sudhakaran were also convicted in this case. The TN CM will now be taken into custody but she is likely to be hospitalised after complaints of chest pain.

Meanwhile the security has been increased but despite the measures, AIADMK activists have already started agitating over this verdict. Jayalalithaa's constituency Sriranganam is completely shut while in Chennai the political atmosphere is chaos. On the other hand, DMK sources are celebrating this verdict and one of the commented “no one is above law.”

(AW: Vamshi)