A panel has recommended that the state government investigate VK Sasikala and others.
Chennai:
J Jayalalithaa’s close aide VK Sasikala has rejected the Commission of Inquiry’s allegation that she was responsible for the lapse in treatment of the former Tamil Nadu chief minister. In a three-page letter, Ms Sasikala rejected the allegations leveled against her by the Justice Arumughaswani Commission and said that the need for an angiogram never arose for Jayalalithaa and that she did not take any steps to take her abroad for treatment. stopped.
Announcing that she was ready to face any investigation, Ms Sasikala wrote that doctors had decided at the time that no angiogram was needed for Jayalalithaa, who died in 2016. “Jaya and I were a model for friendship. We broke up deliberately to understand. The truth of the conspiracy to separate us. After understanding the background of the conspiracy, I engaged to Jayalalithaa.”
Earlier on Tuesday, Ms Sasikala’s lawyer told NDTV that she had nothing to do with the treatment given to Jayalalithaa.
“There is evidence that this is a collective decision of doctors. There was consent of the doctors of AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) sent by the central government. Nowhere does it say that Ms. Sasikala ordered it. AAP’s position Know the law. There should be no assumption,” Raja Senthura Pandian told NDTV.
He added that none of the witnesses had said that “the angiogram was interfered with… Sasikala had intervened. There is no evidence,” he said. He said the doctors later decided to do an angiogram and there is evidence for it.
The inquiry into Jayalalithaa’s death came amid conspiracy theories, the Commission of Inquiry has recommended that the state government investigate VK Sasikala and three others, including the then health minister Dr Vijayabhaskar and the chief secretary.
Justice (retd) A Arumughaswamy said he was responsible for several lapses, including not taking him abroad for treatment despite the recommendation of experts. Jayalalithaa had a hole in her heart and experts from AIIMS and Dr Richard Beale of the UK had recommended an angiogram and treatment abroad.
Mr Pandian also said that the judge who had advised the state government to investigate Jayalalithaa’s death was proceeding with the Supreme Court’s own statement.
Referring to the petition of Chennai Apollo Hospital – where Jayalalithaa was admitted – to the Supreme Court, which said that the former judge was biased and incompetent to handle medical issues, Mr Pandian said that the apex court had asked the commission Clear limits have been set for
Referring to the court’s order on the matter delivered in November 2021, he said the court had said the commission “cannot adjudicate rights or liabilities or decide any question on the guilt or innocence of anyone”. .
The commission could only “give its opinion to the government” whether the treatment given to Jayalalithaa was “adequate or not… or on the basis of oral and documentary evidence”. The top court in its order also said that it expected the commission to “confine itself in this context,” he said. “The Hon’ble Justice has rejected this,” said Mr. Pandian.
The report submitted in August was shared by the DMK government in the state assembly today. This is likely to have political ramifications for the opposition AIADMK and its former ministers. A government order said the state plans to consult legal experts on the next step.