More than ten days after the Madras High Court expressed doubts over late Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s death, the Tamil Nadu government has stated that it will file a response petition in a sealed cover to the court. The first bench of the Madras High Court was hearing a petition filed by AIADMK member Joseph seeking a judicial probe into Jayalalithaa’s “mysterious death”.
Apollo Hospital, where Jayalalithaa had been hospitalised, stated it would pass on her medical records only to her blood relatives, even as the bench questioned the petitioner’s locus standi on the matter. Joseph, the petitioner, observed that although he was not a blood relative, he was a member of the AIADMK, and a citizen of Tamil Nadu and therefore deserved to know what had happened to the former CM.
With the state government seeking time to submit the details, the court posted the case for 23 February.