Jayalalithaa was convicted and sentenced for four years by a trial court in September last year.She was found guilty of amassing unaccounted-for wealth of more than $10m (£6.4m) and had to quit as the chief minister of southern Tamil Nadu state.
The Karnataka High Court acquitted her and three others in the disproportionate assets case, setting aside a trial court order of September 2014 sentencing them to four years in prison.
In his 919-page judgment, Mr. Justice Kumaraswamy said the prosecution had failed to prove the conspiracy.He recalculated the income and expenditure of the accused during 1991-96 and said the additional assets they possessed exceeded their known income by just 8.12 per cent.
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