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This is an archive article published on October 24, 2007

Jaya moves High Court seeking ‘real’ protection

Citing a threat to her life and pointing out that last week’s intrusion by a man into her house wasn’t the first “attempted attack...

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Citing a threat to her life and pointing out that last week’s intrusion by a man into her house wasn’t the first “attempted attack” on her, former chief minister and AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa has moved the Madras High Court for a direction to the state government to ensure her ‘Z-plus’ security. Her demands:

• An anti-sabotage squad with sniffer dogs around her residence

• A door-frame metal detector

• Letter bomb detectors

• A bullet-proof vehicle and a spare vehicle with same facilities

• An ambulance to be available at all times with blood matching her blood group, a stretcher and other life-support equipment, such as oxygen and a first-aid box with medicines

• A jammer vehicle, police drivers

• Close-circuit TV

• Walkie-talkie sets and searchlights

• Extension mirror (bed type) to check vehicles coming to her residence

• Routine checks of her own and convoy vehicles

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