Supreme Court Orders Trial Against Rajnikanth’s Wife In Cheating Case

Superstar Rajinikanth’s wife, Latha Rajinikanth, will have to face trial in a cheating case ruled the Supreme court. The apex court had on July 4 pulled up Latha for not complying with its order and dishonouring her undertaking to repay the outstanding amount of Rs 6.2 crore to an advertising agency. Latha Rajnikanth is one of the directors of Mediaone Global Entertainment Ltd. which took a loan of Rs 14.90 crore from Bengaluru-based Ad-Bureau Advertising, according to a media report.

The loan was taken to finish the post-production work of ‘Kochadaiiyaan’ starring Rajinikanth and Deepika Padukone. The film is supposed to be directed by their younger daughter Soundarya. The court had decided to postpone the decision until July 10 and had stated: “We had kept the matter pending (on February 20) because you had said that you will pay the amount.”

Latha’s counsel informed the court that she had not authorised the lawyer to give such an undertaking before the court earlier. At this, the bench of Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice R. Banumathi said: “We do not like people playing around with court’s order. The long and short of it is that you (Latha) have not paid and the law will take its own course. We will pass order.”. The court also observed that it did not “think that this is a case for quashing”.

Earlier on February 20, the bench kept the petition by the advertising agency pending for three months. It had then ruled, Mediaone will have to clear the payment within three months failing which Latha Rajnikanth had to make the payment herself.

The bench in its February order quoted: “Special leave petition is kept pending for three months. Within the aforesaid period of three months, if the company – Mediaone Global Entertainment Ltd – does not pay the balance dues, the respondent-accused (Latha Rajanikanth) has undertaken before the court to pay the amount due.”

The bench was hearing a plea filed by the Ad-Bureau Advertising against the March 10, 2016 order of the Karnataka High Court that had quashed the proceedings against Latha initiated after a trial court order.

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