What happened to former CM of TN J Jayalalithaa inside the court hall in Bangalore?

What happened to former chief minister of Tamil Nadu J Jayalalithaa inside the court? Whether she was manhandled by the police personnel from Karnataka?

A court staff, who was also present in the court hall when the verdict was pronounced on September 27, on condition of anonymity said: “If the media and the photographers were allowed inside the court hall, there may be clash between two sects of people across two states.”

September 27, 2014: A small room was modified into a court hall. The special court judge John Michael D’Cunha pronounced his milestone judgment. J Jayalalithaa, escorted by the ‘Z’ plus security personnel, entered into court hall and then the further proceedings were blacked out from the thousands of media people. They were restricted by placing barricades 500 metres away from the court premises on all sides.

Security beefed up outside the special court in Bangalore

The staff who witnessed the verdict said, Jayalalithaa was teary-eyed and she spoke in fluent English to the judge. "Her face turned red and she appeared as if she would start shedding tears any moment, but she fought her emotions and didn't allow the tears to roll down her cheeks."

She said “the entire case spanning 18-years was politically motivated. There is no black spot in my administration or the way I run the party. This is politically motivated." Brushing aside her plea, the Judge Cunha declared her and three others named in the first information report (FIR) as accused and convicted them with four years imprisonment.

Jayalalithaa sat in a chair and didn’t see her aide N Sasikala, J Elavarasi and V N Sudhakaran who were standing little away from her. Jayalalithaa asked for some water, however she got the water bottle after an hour along with some biscuits. The police personnel gave Jayalalithaa packed food for her lunch. She refused to accept the lunch she took the remaining biscuits as her lunch.

Worsen the situation, when police personnel held Jayalalithaa’s hand firmly and refused to allow her to the caravan, instead the police personnel showed a wash room, close to the court hall. The ‘Black Cats’ came for her rescue and they dared the police personnel at gun point, who pushed away Jayalalithaa.

Jayalalithaa didn’t turn towards anyone and she was chanting slogans till she was taken to the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison after a team of three prison doctors examined Jayalalithaa’s health condition before admitting her.

Parappana Agrahara Central Prison

Jayalalithaa has been given convict number 7402. Her friend Sasikala is convict 7403, Sudhakaran 7404 and Ilavarasi 7405. Sources say that at the prison, both the in-house doctors and her personal doctors checked Jayalalithaa.