Sidelined leader presses for CBI probe into Jaya death

Chennai: Sidelined AIADMK leader T T V Dhinakaran on Monday pressed for a CBI probe into the death of late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa.

"I want a CBI probe," was his reply when asked if the party faction led by him was ready to cooperate with the government-constituted Justice A Arumughaswamy Commission of Inquiry to probe the death of Jayalalithaa on December 5, 2016.

"Only when there is a CBI probe, can the ministers, who are making contradictory remarks (on meeting Jayalalithaa when she was hospitalised), be questioned," he said.

Tamil Nadu Forest Minister Dindigul C Srinivasan had recently said nobody had met the former AIADMK supremo after she was admitted to the Apollo Hospital last year and that they "lied" that she ate idly, among others, out of fear of her close aide and now party chief V K Sasikala.