Jaya death probe: HC reserves orders on Apollo Hospitals' plea

The Madras High Court Tuesday reserved its orders on a petition of the Apollo Hospitals, seeking quashing of proceedings related to two Government Orders of September 2017 over treatment given to former chief minister Jayalalithaa before her death.

The division bench, comprising Justices R Subbiah and Krishnan Ramaswamy, said it was reserving the orders after hearing counsels representing the Apollo Hospitals, the Justice A Arumughaswamy Commission and the government.

The Apollo Hospitals submitted that this was the first time in independent India that a Commission of Inquiry was allowed to go into the correctness of the medical treatment given to a political leader.

Senior counsel P S Raman, who appeared on behalf of the hospital, submitted that their team had done extensive research over the past three days but could not find a single precedent in the country.

"However, internationally in 1980 when a African leader died after hospitalization in a government hospital, such an inquiry