Pleasant Stay hotel case was a sensational case against Jayalalithaa , the late Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , a state in South India during her tenure in 1991-96 . Jayalalitha and her ministerial colleague , T. M. Selvaganapathy , were charged of misusing office to allow Pleasant Stay Hotel in Kodaikanal to build seven floors against the norms . The case and chargesheet were filed during the following DMK ( Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ) government headed by Karunanidhi in 1996 . Jayalalitha and T. M. Selvaganapathy were convicted in the lower court , which sentenced her to one year imprisonment to the two and three others involved . The case had political implications as the aftermath violence created furore in the state . The statewide violence resulted in the burning of five buses , damaging fifty buses and leaving 40 people injured . Three girls students of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University were burnt alive in a bus in Dharmapuri . The three AIADMK party workers were convicted in the case , got death sentence in the case in 2007 which was commuted to life imprisonment
burnt alive in a bus in Dharmapuri
2000 Dharmapuri bus burning
Pleasant Stay hotel case