Excessive-security convoy brings Jayalalithaa’s 27kg gold again to TN after 20 yrs

Jayalalithaa (File picture)

BENGALURU: For 20 years, 27kg of J Jayalalithaa’s gold – as soon as adorning Tamil Nadu’s halls of energy – lay locked away in Karnataka authorities’s treasury, removed from its opulent origins. Nevertheless, on Saturday, the “treasure” price an estimated Rs 20-22 crore was lastly set on a high-security homecoming journey again to Chennai in a convoy match for royalty.
Following a courtroom order handy over seized valuables of the late Tamil Nadu CM to the state govt, the formal switch proceedings started Friday with an armed posse entrusted with the duty of transporting the property in six sealed bins – over eight years after Jayalalithaa’s demise. Round 40 police officers in six police autos, led by an official of the rank of SP, have been a part of the convoy, with the “gold truck” within the center.
The gold ornaments embody a gold-coated sword, a gold crown, a gold plate, a gold waist belt, a gold figurine resembling Jayalalithaa, gold watches, gold pens, and a number of other bangles and earrings.
The gold ornaments (some studded with diamonds), together with silver objects and some land paperwork, have been seized from the Poes Backyard residence of the then CM and have been delivered to Bengaluru in 2004. That was when a particular courtroom was arrange within the metropolis to listen to the disproportionate belongings case registered in opposition to Jayalalithaa and three of her associates – Sasikala Natarajan, VN Sudhakaran, and J Ilavarasi.
Particular decide John Michael D’Cunha had convicted all 4 in 2014 and sentenced them to 4 years in jail. Moreover, whereas Jayalalithaa was fined Rs 100 crore, the opposite three have been fined Rs 10 crore every.
Public prosecutor Kiran S Javali mentioned TN govt can both deposit the gold with RBI or conduct a public public sale after analysis of the ornaments. “The whole expenditure on the trial got here to Rs 13 crore. This shall be recovered from the superb obtained from Sasikala, and the remaining shall be transferred to TN govt,” Javali mentioned.