The Centre has told the Chennai High Court that it didn’t have the power to inquire into the mysterious demise of former Tamil Nadu chief-minister J. Jayalalithaa as the State Govt. was the competent authority to set up a Commission of Inquiry in this regard.
Doubts have been expressed in many quarters about the mysterious circumstances in which the former chief-minister expired at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai after spending 75 days during when she was treated by doctors from AIIMS, New Delhi and a specialist from London. The medical reports issued by Apollo, AIIMS and the Govt. of Tamil Nadu have only fuelled that there is something more than that meets the eye.
Requests from several quarters have been made for setting up of Commission of Inquiry to go in to the circumstances behind the former chief-minister’s demise. It has also been demanded that CCTV footages of the floor in which Jayalalithaa was under treatment be made public. Social activist ‘Traffic’ Ramasamy had filed a case with the Chennai High Court requesting for setting up a Judges’ Committee to probe the issue.
While filing a reply to this, the Centre told the Chennai High Court that it had no powers to inquire into the mysterious demise of the former chief-minister. “Only the State can provide details of treatment given to the former chief-minister; it is also only within the purview of the State to set up a Commission of Inquiry in this regard,” the Centre said and asked that it be ‘relieved’ from the case as one of the parties.
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