Probe into Jayalalithaa’s death begins

Chennai: A probe on the death of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa has begun.

Retired Madras High Court Judge, Justice A Aarumugasamy, who heads the one man panel investigating former CM Jayalalithaa’s death, is likely to visit Poes Garden, where Jayalaluthaa lived before her death in 2016.

In September, Justice (Retired) Arumugasamy was appointed to head the probe into the death of Jayalalithaa following Chief Minister E Palaniswamy’s announcement in this regard.

The Tamil Nadu government set up the inquiry commission in September to investigate Jayalalithaa’s death. The report is to be submitted in three months.

This decision was made after a minister gave hints that the issue was hidden from the general public and that only former confidant V K Sasikala and her family had access to see the ailing Jayalalithaa.