The High Court of Madras has directed the administrators of the prestigious Apollo Hospitals in Chennai to respond by today (Thrusday) stating whether or not it possessed the blood samples of the deceased former chief-minister J. Jayalalithaa.

Amrita of Bangalore moved the High Court of Madras by filing a petition and stating that she be declared as the ‘biological’ daughter of the late chief-minister who remained ‘unmarried’ officially.  Amrita had even requested the Court to order exhuming Jayalalithaa’s body from her grave to conduct DNA tests to prove her claim that she was the legal daughter of the former chief-minister.

A counter-petition has also been filed with the High Court of Madras by the Youth Wing of the ruling AIADMK, requesting for rejection of Amrita’s petition.  When the case was taken up for hearing yesterday, the High Court wondered if Apollo Hospitals, where the late chief-minister spent the last 75 days of her life in hospitalization before she was declared dead on 05th December, 2016, possessed Jayalalithaa’s blood samples.

The Court also directed the Apollo Hospitals to file a detailed report with it within 24 hours i.e. by this afternoon informing it of the status of the blood samples of the former chief-minister the Hospital had in its possession.