Jaya was not pregnant: State trashes Amrutha claim

Advocate General Vijay Narayan on holding that the claim was both a ‘joke and hoax’, said as per the woman’s claim she was born to Jayalalithaa on August 14, 1980. But a mere glimpse of the video clip filmed a month before Amrutha’s birth would clearly reveal that the former Chief Minister showed no signs of pregnancy. 

The Advocate General on reading out the affidavit filed by Amrutha that she had come and stayed with Jayalalithaa at Poes Garden and that the latter had also visited her in Bangalore, wondered as to how she failed to manage to take even a single photograph of both of them together either in Chennai or Bangalore and how none of the staff knew anything about her visits. He said the claims are an utter mockery and the proof submitted merely ranged from an AIADMK membership card to representations made to every minister in the Centre and Supreme Court judges. 

Noting that every person mentioned in the affidavit was dead, the Advocate General also highlighted the contradictory claims Amrutha had made about who informed her that she was the biological child of Jayalalithaa. While at one stage she said it was her foster father in another place she pointed out to some maternal uncle. 

The Advocate General also referred to a defamation suit filed against Sandhya, Amrutha’s foster mother, who had claimed to be Jayalalithaa’s sister and stressed that the court cannot order such DNA testing as a matter of course in the absence of prima facie evidence. However, senior Counsel V Prakash appearing on behalf of Amrutha contended that if the state found the petitioner’s claim as fraudulant, then there should be no reason for them to restrain from agreeing to a DNA testing, which would clear all doubts. He said to preserve the purity of justice at least the female lineage of Amrutha with Jayalalitha’s family could be checked using samples from Deepa, the niece of Jayalalithaa.