Soon after the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party ( DMK ) came into power in Tamil Nadu in 1996 , it filed a series of corruption cases against the former Chief Minister and AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa , other ministers , and bureaucrats of her government . In the Pleasant Stay hotel case , a Special Court judgement given by Justice V. Radhakrishnan convicted Jayalalithaa and sentenced her to one year of " rigorous imprisonment " . This caused statewide protests and violence , including damage to public property by AIADMK members . The protests in Elakiyampatti in Dharmapuri were led by AIADMK Dharmapuri union secretary D.K. Rajendran and other AIADMK party workers . These included Nedu alias Nedunchezhiyan , then secretary of Dharmapuri town unit , Madhu alias Ravindran , MGR forum functionary , and P Muniappan , a former panchayat president
Pleasant Stay hotel case
Pleasant Stay hotel case
2000 Dharmapuri bus burning