Court sources, however, said the matter will be taken up either on Monday or Tuesday in view of Bakrid holiday, reported The Hindu.

When the matter was first taken up by a vacation bench on Tuesday, G. Bhavani Singh, the Special Public Prosecutor in the trial court, told Justice Rathnakala that as there was no official communication that he had been appointed prosecutor in the appeal too, it would not be proper for him to represent the State.

The judge said as representation on the prosecution side was necessary, the matter could wait for the appointment of a prosecutor.She then adjourned the application to Monday next, even as Ms. Jayalalithaa’s lawyers submitted that a prosecutor’s presence was not necessary as the trial court sentence was less than 10 years.