According to the petitioner, one Thangavelu from Tiruchirappalli, since Jayalalithaa was found guilty and convicted in the disproportionate assets case, converting her residence into a memorial will led to a bad precedent.
He prayed for staying the conversion of the residence into a memorial, besides quashing chief minister K Palaniswami's announcement in this regard.
Jayalalithaa was convicted in 2014 in the disproportionate assets case by a special court in Bengaluru, along with aide V K Sasikala and two others and sentenced to four yearsof simple imprisonment.
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