NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to give an urgent hearing on a PIL seeking to restrain AIADMK leader V K Sasikala from being sworn in as Tamil Nadu chief minister till it decides the disproportionate assets case against her.
However, a bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar declined the plea for urgent hearing.
Advocate G S Mani, who is representing Chennai-resident Senthil Kumar, General Secretary of NGO Satta Panchayat Iyakkam, pleaded that the matter be heard on an urgent basis.
The PIL was filed on February 6, seeking a stay on the swearing-in of Sasikala as Tamil Nadu chief minister as there was speculation that she would be taking an oath the next day.
The petitioner has sought a restraint on her swearing-in after an apex court bench had on February 6 said that it would pronounce within a week the judgment in a 19-year-old disproportionate assets case.
After Jayalalithaa passed away on December 5, 2016, Sasikala, who was her shadow for nearly three decades, was made General Secretary of AIADMK on December 29 and elected as the Leader of the Legislature Party on February 5.