Maithreyan meets President, asks for probe into Jaya’s death

The 12-MP delegation, led by Rajya Sabha member V Maithreyan, submitted a memorandum in this regard to the President at the Rashtrapathi Bhavan here. In their memorandum, they sought steps for instituting a probe which can be a judicial inquiry or a CBI probe. It can be decided by the President, Maithreyan told reporters here after meeting Mukherjee. He questioned the need to admit the former chief minister in hospital on September 22 just for ‘fever and dehydration’, when her Poes Garden residence itself had a ‘mini hospital and ICU set-up’. “I consider removal of such suspicions will be a tribute to Amma (Jayalalithaa),”  he said. 

Maithreyan, who is an Oncologist, said during Jayalalithaa’s long medication at Apollo on one was allowed to visit her. “After taking necessary precautions one or two members can be allowed. Neither Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley nor OPS were allowed to see Amma,” he said. He also said they wanted to know who authorised the hospital’s decision to go in for ‘cessation of treatment’, to allow natural cessation  of life after Jayalalithaa suffered a cardiac arrest on December 5. Under normal circumstances a permission was obtained from blood relatives to stop medical treatment, he said. He also promised to take up the issue in the  upcoming session of  Parliament. To a question on why the issue was not raised soon after Jaya’s death, Maitreyan said, “If we had raised it on the day of funeral, TN would have faced a lot of violence.”