New Delhi, Oct 15: The Supreme Court today reserved its verdict on a petition seeking transfer of trial proceedings in two disproportionate asset cases against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaaa outside the state. A bench, comprising Justice S N Variava and Justice H K Sema, reserved the judgement on the petition filed by DMK General Secretary K Anbazhagan alleging that the prosecution was acting in a biased manner, prejudicial to the interests of justice.
During the arguments, the bench questioned the state of Tamil Nadu as to why no steps were taken by the prosecution to confront the witnesses when they were resiling from their earlier statements made during cross-examination.
Appearing for the state, Additional Solicitor General Altaf Ahmed expressed willingness to change the public prosecutor if the court felt that he had failed to discharge his duties.
"If Supreme Court feels that prosecutors should be changed, it can do so and we will have no objection to it," Ahmed said.
The bench was critical of the manner in which the witnesses, one after another, were resiling from their statements and the prosecution neither re-examined them nor took steps to declare them hostile.
Bureau Report