Chennai: Apollo Hospitals has gone to court to stop the investigation by the Justice Arumughaswamy Commission into the circumstances leading to the death of chief minister J Jayalalithaa.
Jayalalithaa was admitted to Apollo Hospitals when she lost consciousness and died without responding to treatment after 75 days, on 5 December 2016. The commission was constituted after AIADMK leader and now Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam made that a condition to merge his faction with the party led by Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami.
The commission has so far questioned AIADMK leaders, doctors who treated her, nurses who attended on her, the Health Secretary, Dr Radhakrishnan, her aide Poongundran, family members of V K Sasikala… totally about 100 people.
Apollo Hospitals has already questioned the technical qualification of the commission to go into the medical nuances of the case.
In the circumstances, it prayed to the Madras High Court today to form an independent team of 21 medical experts – who are not from government hospitals – to go into the treatment given to Jayalalithaa. It has cited the Tamilnadu government, V K Sasikala and the Arumughaswamy Commission as respondents in the case.
The case will come up Monday before a bench comprising Justice Subbiah and Justice Krishnan Ramaswamy.