Jail or bail? Jayalalithaa's fate hangs in the balance

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday will hear AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa's plea seeking immediate bail and suspension of her four-year sentence in an 18-year-old disproportionate assets case.
Bracing up for the anticipated entry of AIADMK supporters and leaders into the city from the Hosur border, the police have tightened security in and around the High Court and Parappana Agrahara Central Prison, where Jayalalithaa is lodged since September 27
The actor-politician made her debut as the lead actress in Kannada films while still in school, age 15, in Chinnada Gombe (1964).