Colour TV case: Difference between revisions

| participants            = [[Jayalalithaa]], [[V. K. Sasikala|Sasikala]], [[T. M. Selvaganapathy]]

The '''Colour TV case'''<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/Colour-TV-scam-High-Court-upholds-acquittal-of-Jayalalithaa/article16876085.ece|title=Colour TV scam: High Court upholds acquittal of Jayalalithaa|last=PTI|newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=2017-02-23|language=en}}</ref> was a legal case against [[Jayalalithaa|J. Jayalalithaa]], the late [[Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu]], a state in [[South India]] from 1991–1996. J.Jayalalithaa, her aide [[V. K. Sasikala|VK Sasikala]], and her ministerial colleague [[T. M. Selvaganapathy]] were charged with misusing their office to buy colour televisions at a higher price than quoted, then receiving substantial kickbacks. Jayalalithaa, Sasikala, and seven others were arrested and remanded to judicial custody on 7 December 1998. The case and [[chargesheet]] were filed during the [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] (DMK) government headed by [[M. Karunanidhi]] in 1998. On 30 May 2000, Jayalalithaa and Sasikala were acquitted while a lower court convicted Selvaganapathy and six others and sentenced them to five years of rigorous imprisonment with a fine of {{INR}}10,000 ({{USD|{{To USD round|10000|IND|year=2002|1}}|link=yes}}). It was one of the first instances where an ex-chief minister was arrested and sent to jail and one of the earliest examples of the conviction of a [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]] in a corruption case. Selvaganapathy was a member of [[Parliament]] from the [[Tiruchengode (Lok Sabha constituency)|Tiruchengode constituency]] in [[Lok Sabha]] at the time of the verdict.