SC extends bail to Jayalalitha
The apex court extended bail also to four other accused.
Jayalalitha, the supremo of AIADMK, was sentenced to four years in jail.
A bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justice A K Mishra also gave liberty to the high court judge to move application in future for extension of time for delivering the judgement in view of the fact that a matter connected to the case is pending in the apex court before the larger bench.
The High Court will now have to wait till a newly-formed three-judge bench of the Supreme Court gives a final decision on the question whether the entire appeal proceedings held in the past three months was vitiated due to the presence of Special Public Prosecutor Bhavani Singh.
The three judge bench was formed by the Supreme Court on Thursday after a bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and R. Banumathi delivered a split verdict on DMK leader K. Anbazhagan's plea to remove Singh.
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