The other accused in the case relating to purchase of land and buildings of state owned Tansi (Tamil Nadu Small Industries) by Jaya publications are the AIADMK supremo's close friend Sasikala Natarajan, former Tansi managing director T R Srinivasan, former deputy collector (Stamps) S Nagarajan and R Karpoorasundarapandian, IAS, a secretary in the former chief minister's office.

Earlier, the judge dismissed petitions filed by Mohammad Asif, one of the accused in the case under Sections 207 CrPC and 309 CrPC, seeking copies of some Tamil documents pertaining to the case in English and for a week's adjournment on health grounds.

The judge rejected a plea from Jayalalitha's counsel that theframing of charges be put off to June 1 as the AIADMK leader had fixed prior political appointments for May 31.

Jayalalitha's counsel, who had stalled the framing of charges by producing a medical certificate on Tuesday by stating that she was suffering from viral fever and advised one week bed rest by the doctor, today informed the court that she has recovered and was ready to come to the court in 90 minutes notice.

However, Asif, the former Rural Industries Minister, who was admitted to the intensive care unit in Sri Ramachandra Medical College Hospital in suburban Porur for heart ailment on May 25, continues to be ill, according to his counsel.

The former minister who is cited as fourth accused in the case was discharged from the Porur hospital the next day only to be admitted to a private nursing home here on Thursday.

Taking advantage of the absence of Asif, Jayalaitha's close friend Sasikala also did not come to the court on Friday. Three other accused, including two IAS officers were, however,present in the court.

On Monday, the judge had said that if the two accused (Jayalalitha and Asif) failed to come to the court on Friday, he would ask the Dean of the Government General Hospital to examine them to ascertain the genuineness of their illness.

Meanwhile, Jayalalitha made a vain bid on Thursday, to file a petition before Madras High Court opposing the special court's move to get her examined by the government hospital dean.

But in a surprise development on Friday, her counsel Jothi, who had argued before the court on Monday that 18 hours notice was not sufficient for Jayalalitha to appear before the court, told the court that she has utmost respect for the court and would come to the court in 90 minutes.

Asif's counsel, said that his client's heart ailment was genuine and the court need not suspect it. He wanted the case to be adjourned for a week and assured that Asif would come to the court in the first available opportunity.

He said Asif was forcibly discharged from the RamachandraHospital following pressures from the police and it was a matter of shame that no hospital had come forward to admit a heart patient fearing Government "action". He was finally admitted to a private nursing home, the counsel added.

Arguing that deans were puppets in the hands of the government, he said if at all the court wants to examine his client, he should be examined by a team of doctors drawn from outside the State and not by a mere dean.But in a surprise development on Friday, her counsel Jothi, who had argued before the court on Monday that 18 hours notice was not sufficient for jayalalitha to appear before the court, told the court that she has utmost respect for the court and would come to the court in 90 minutes.