Chennai : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha was today issued notice by 
the Supreme Court on a CBI appeal challenging the Madras High Court verdict, which had quashed a case, registered against her for allegedly receiving an illegal remittance of US 3 lakh dollars in 1992.
While issuing notice to the Tamil Nadu CM, a bench of justices Altmas Kabir and S S Nijjar, however, refrained from staying the September 30, 2011 judgement of the Madras High Court, delivered on a plea by Jayalalitha for quashing the FIR against her.
The case of the CBI is that Jayalalitha had received a remittance of three lakh US dollars in 1992 through a demand draft issued by banker’s trust company in New York, drawn on ANZ Grindlays bank, St Helier Jersey. According to the CBI, the receipts of such a huge money was part of an illegal transaction, which was being probed.Jayalalitha was the chief minister of the state at the time of the alleged offence.
