In a statement, Karunanidhi referred to Jayalalitha's allegation against him in connection with Afghanistan mercenaries trained by Osama Bin Laden and that a Special Court should go into it, and said, ``she is wantonly spreading such false information''.

He also welcomed TMC leader G K Moopanar's statement that the Centre was likely to have more information on Osama and it should react to Jayalalitha's charges.

Meanwhile, Jayalalitha today filed a petition in a special court seeking postponement of proceedings against her in the `TANSI land deal' case, till the Supreme Court gave its verdict on the powers of the governor to sanction her prosecution.

The judge, P Anbazhagan, trying cases of corruption duringAIADMK rule, ordered issue of notice to the CB-CID, the investigating agency, returnable on October 16.

The case relates to sale of prime land and buildings of the state-owned Tamil Nadu Small Industries Corporation (TANSI) here, allegedly far below the then prevailing market rates to `Jaya Publications' and `Sasi Enterprises' in which Jayalalitha and her friend Sasikala Natarajan were partners.

Jayalalitha's 1995 petition challenging the then governor Channa Reddy's order sanctioning her prosecution in the TANSI deal and another case is pending before a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court.

In her petition, Jayalalitha pointed out that the Supreme Court while referring her Special Leave Petition (SLP) to a Constitution Bench had stayed the sanction accorded to the Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy to prosecute her in the case.

She had filed the SLP after the Madras High Court had dismissed her petition challenging the sanction.

Jayalalitha pointed out that in the writ petition filed byher in the high court during her chief ministership, the government had then taken a stand that the state government was the authority to accord sanction to prosecute a chief minister and not the governor.

It was surprising that the Tamil Nadu Government had now obtained sanction from the governor to prosecute her. She prayed that the proceedings against her in the case be postponed till the apex court rendered its findings on her SLP.