India, Feb. 16 -- The assets of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa -- seized in a disproportionate assets (DA) -- were handed over to the state government by officials from the Karnataka treasury on Saturday, a day after the Supreme Court dismissed a plea by her legal heir seeking the return of attached properties.

The seized assets included 27.558 kilograms of gold jewellery, 1,116 kilograms of silver, and documents related to 1,526 acres of land, officials said. These valuables were formally transferred to Tamil Nadu government representatives through an in-camera procedure in the presence of the court and treasury officials in Bengaluru.

Tamil Nadu home secretary Dheeraj Kumar told HT that a joint secretary from the stat...