The Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Court on Wednesday adjourned to January 28 the framing of charges against V.K. Sasikala, jailed aide to former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, in three cases registered against her by the Enforcement Directorate under provisions of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA).
Last December, the ACMM framed charges against Sasikala in two cases following her appearance through video-conferencing, and was scheduled to frame charges in three cases on Wednesday, also through video-conferencing.
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The court was recently shifted from the Allikulam campus to the Egmore campus. Since the video-conferencing facility was yet to be established, the framing of charges was adjourned by ACMM S. Malarmathy to January 28.
The case of the Enforcement Directorate is that Sasikala, as chairperson-cum-director of JJTV Private Limited, had authorised the company’s managing director and her nephew V. Bhaskaran to negotiate and enter into a contract with any foreign supplier with a transponder facility for launching a Tamil satellite TV channel in the early 1990s.
The ED alleged that Sasikala and Bhaskaran routed money thorough unauthorised channels without obtaining permission from the RBI.
