New Delhi, December 14: The Supreme Court today declined to stay the disproportionate assets case against former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa pending in a Karnataka court.
A bench of justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma refused to stay the trial, which is scheduled to commence from tomorrow, after senior counsel Nageswar Rao, appearing for the former Chief Minister, contended that the case cannot be allowed to proceed without rectifying errors in the translated documents.
The apex court permitted translators to assist the court in translating the original documents.
Jayalalithaa had contended that the documents had been translated from Tamil to English in a distorted manner to falsely implicate her.
The documents have been translated from Tamil to English as the case had been transferred out of the state.
She claimed if the errors were not rectified, it would result in miscarriage of justice.
–Agencies