[1]Senior counsel and former Advocate General B.V. Acharya has resigned as Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) in the disproportionate assets case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. In his resignation letter, dispatched to the Principal Secretary to the Home department, Mr Acharya stated that he was “unable to withstand strain attached to the office of the Special Public Prosecutor”.
Mr Acharya’s five-page letter clearly indicates efforts to force him quit. He said that by resigning “interested parties will achieve their objective”. “Throughout the proceedings, I had to suffer untold hardship and embarrassment at the instance of interested parties whose sole objective appears to be to get rid of me as public prosecutor in the case. Having failed to achieve the object by inducement and threats, several proceedings were instituted and several petitions were filed with oblique motive”.
Mr Acharya also referred to the private complaint filed against him before the Lokayukta special court regarding his position as chairman of BMS Educational Trust. He cited this also an attempt to force him quit as SPP. “I realize that by doing so, I am allowing the interested parties to achieve their objective. But, I am helpless in the matter,’’ he stated in the letter.
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