You can give answers,” the judge said and also asked the accused if anyone of them was ready to give answers today.
The accused told the judge that they would give answers after the recording of statement of Raja.
During the hearing, Raja, Kanimozhi, Balwa and two other accused did not appear before the court and they were exempted from personal appearance for the day.
The court had earlier given a “draft questionnaire” to the 17 accused facing trial in the case.
The court had in November last year concluded the recording of prosecution evidence.
It had on November 27, 2013 concluded recording of statements of CBI witnesses after the deposition of CBI's Superintendent of Police Vivek Priyadarshi, the chief investigating officer, got over.
