“Party will move the Supreme Court against the Madras High Court closing a plea against Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in a case relating to her allegedly furnishing false information while filing nomination for the 2001 assembly polls,” said by the\u00a0DMK chief\u00a0M Karunanidhi.<\/p>\n
A Division Bench of the High Court, comprising Justice Elipe Dharma Rao and Justice R Mala, had held that the petition filed by former DMK MP C Kuppusamy, who died last week, stands ‘abated’. It had also dismissed a petition by DMK MP AKS Vijayan seeking to substitute himself as petitioner and continue the proceedings.<\/p>\n
In a party statement here, Karunanidhi said there was precedence that a litigation cannot be dismissed in the wake of the petitioner’s death and based on this, steps will be taken to file an appeal in the Supreme Court by Vijayan.<\/p>\n
Karunanidhi recalled that Kuppusamy and Vijayan besides some others had appealed to the Election Commission of India in 2001 against Jayalalithaa, contending that providing false information was punishable offence.<\/p>\n
Kuppusamy, Parliamentary party Leader in 2002, had filed a petition against Jayalalithaa and since a senior member of the party had filed the case, Vijayan did not file any separate litigation, according to Karunanidhi.<\/p>\n
Karunanidhi said Jayalalithaa filed nominations from four constituencies in 2001 and had given a declaration that she had not been or would be nominated as a candidate for more than two constituencies.<\/p>\n
In November last, the Supreme Court had set aside a 2007 direction of the Madras High Court asking authorities to initiate action against Jayalalithaa and referred the matter back to the High Court for fresh disposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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