The High Court of Madras has asked Apollo Hospitals, Chennai to intimate whether it possessed blood samples of late chief-minister J. Jayalalithaa.

It may be recalled that Jayalalithaa was ‘declared dead’ by the Hospital late on the night of 05th December, 2016 after she spent tense-filled, mysterious 75 days at the hospital during when her former aide Sasikala allowed nobody to call on her or talk to her. Justice Arumuga Swamy Commission of Inquiry is probing the mysterious circumstances which preceded Jayalalithaa’s demise in December, 2016.

In the meantime, Amrutha of Bangalore moved the High Court of Chennai stating in her petition that she was the ‘actual’ daughter of the former chief-minister and asked the Court to declare that she was the ‘legal heir’ of Jayalaithaa. Amrutha even requested to undergo a DNA test to prove that she was the biological daughter of the former chief-minister who never got married officially.

Amrutha’s request for allowing her to perform rituals of her ‘mother’ as her family rituals was taken up by the Court yesterday when the Judges wanted to know Apollo Hospitals, which treated the former chief-minister, possessed blood samples of the late leader. It directed the Hospital to respond in this regard by 07th March.