Will order probe into Jayalalithaa death, says O Panneerselvam
“I feel it is the duty of the Government to pay heed to the request of the people on their concerns about the treatment provided to Amma''.
Chennai: Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam on Wednesday announced that he would order an inquiry headed by a Supreme Court Judge into the treatment and subsequent death of his mentor and late AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa.
“I feel it is the duty of the Government to pay heed to the request of the people on their concerns about the treatment provided to Amma. I assure you that an inquiry will set up under the aegis of a Supreme Court Judge (to probe the treatment and subsequent death) of Amma,” Panneerselvam told reporters at his official residence on the Greenways Road here.
His comments came just two days after British consultant intensivist Dr Richard Beale, who led the team of doctors who attended on the late Chief Minister at the Apollo Hospitals, clarified that she indeed died of heart attack and there was no conspiracy in her death.
He also alleged that he could not meet he late mentor J. Jayalalithaa “even once” when she was hospitalised for 75 days.
“For 75 days I went to the hospital every day. But I could not meet her even once. Even my family members used to ask me every day whether I met Amma. At one stage, I even thought of lying that I had met her. But I did not do so,” Panneerselvam said, adding that he was always told then she was fine.