A file image of AIADMK General Secretary and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa at a perform in Chennai.
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A public curiosity litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court looking for a courtroom monitored Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the death of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in the sunshine of the report of Justice A. Arumughaswamy Commission which probed into circumstances that led to her death.
R.R. Gopaljee, writer of two editions of a vernacular newspaper, has filed the PIL petition claiming the former Chief Minister had died on December 5, 2016 “under doubtful circumstances after about 75 days of hospitalisation.” He stated the death grew to become a topic of public debate with doubts being raised from a number of quarters.
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Hence, a Commission of Inquiry was constituted in September 2017 and it submitted its report in August 2022. Stating that no efficient motion had been taken to date by the State authorities pursuant to the submitting of the Commission’s report, the litigant stated, it was extremely important to order for a good and unbiased investigation by the CBI.
Since the same writ petition filed by the litigant was dismissed on the query of maintainability final yr because it was filed with out submitting any illustration to the authorities involved, the petitioner acknowledged that this time, he had approached the courtroom after sending representations to the official authorities on December 3, 2022.
