Jayalalithaa panel can proceed with probe, says High Court

The Madras High Court on Friday made it clear that the Justice A. Arumughaswamy Commission of Inquiry (CoI) can proceed with its probe into circumstances that led to the hospitalisation of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on September 22, 2016 and the medical treatment provided till her death on December 5, 2016.
A Division Bench of Justices R. Subbiah and Krishnan Ramasamy provided the clarification at the instance of Advocate-General Vijay Narayan and senior counsel AR.L. Sundaresan, who said the tenure of the CoI was time- bound and that it had to wind up the inquiry at the earliest before submitting a report to the government.
When two writ petitions filed by Apollo Hospitals Enterprises against the CoI came up for hearing, the judges said the Commission would be at liberty to proceed with examination of witnesses, including the doctors involved in the issue, since the petitioner hospital required time till March 1 to commence arguments on the writ petitions.

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