SC junks woman’s plea claiming to be Jayalalithaa’s daughter

The woman alleged she was given away in adoption, which her adoptive father revealed on his deathbed.

By: Express Web Desk
New Delhi | Updated: November 28, 2017 07:56 AM IST

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The apex court also set aside the Calcutta High Court order that had restrained the Centre from withdrawing CAPF from the state's hill regions on the ground that normalcy had not returned. Supreme Court (File photo)

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain the plea filed by a woman seeking a DNA test to buttress her claims to be the biological daughter of late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa. The apex court said she could approach the high court for legal remedies.

The woman, identified as Amrutha Sarathy from Bengaluru, also sought cremation of Jayalalithaa’s body, which was buried after her death last year in December. Represented by senior Advocate Indira Jaising, she asked for the exhumation of the body as per the rituals of Vaishnav Iyengar Brahmins.

A bench of Justices M B Lokur and Deepak Gupta, who presided over the matter, refused to allow conducting a DNA test, which she seeks in order to prove her claims. The woman alleged she was given away in adoption and that this was revealed by adoptive father on his deathbed. She has claimed there were two eye witnesses to the adoption.

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