Circumstances of Jayalalithaa's death stoke fresh controversy in Tamil Nadu

Probe to be conducted on circumstances leading to her hospitalisation and demise

A year after the demise of Tamil Nadu’s political icon J Jayalalithaa, fresh controversy has been stoked as the state government has appointed an inquiry commission to probe the circumstances leading to her hospitalisation, following which she is said to have succumbed to her illness on December 5, 2016.

The commission is to be headed by a retired Madras High Court judge after contradictory accounts related to the ex-CM surfaced, as several ministers claimed to have met her during her illness at the hospital. The single member Commission was constituted by the state government on September 25 and will be