BANGALORE: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday submitted statements to the Special Court here on about 380 questions in more than five hours of hearing related to the alleged disproportionate assets case against her.B Kumar, advocate of Jayalalithaa, said the hearing in the trial started at 11 am and the first session ended at 2.15 pm, and it resumed at 2.45 pm and ended at 4.45 pm. He said Jayalalithaa had answers to over 380 main questions. Sources said that she, in fact, answered around 400 questions, including supplementary questions. According to the break-up, the CM answered 240 questions in the morning and 160 in the post-lunch hearing.The hearing has been posted to Friday and the court has to finish the recording of statements within two days as the Supreme Court had specifically instructed, Kumar said.After the hearing, Jayalalithaa returned to Chennai on a special aircraft. She would visit Bangalore again on Friday to attend the hearing and to give her statements before the court.On Thursday, at 10.20 am, Jayalalithaa landed at the HAL airport in the special aircraft. With a fleet of 10 vehicles carrying Z+ category securitymen and police escorts she arrived at the Parappana Agrahara court premises.“The trial went on smoothly and she has to answer the remaining questions on Friday, out of over 600 questions related to her alleged illegal assets,” Kumar said.
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