Woman claiming to be Jayalalithaa’s daughter asks for DNA test; SC rejects plea
New Delhi, Nov 27 (IBNS) : The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain the writ petition of a woman, who claimed to be the biological daughter of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, for a DNA test to determine her parentage.
The Hindu reported that a Bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta, however, allowed the woman, identified as Amrutha, the liberty to pursue other remedies in law.
According to the report, the petition asked the court to “permit the family members of Jayalalitha to cremate her body as per the rites, rituals and customs of Vaishnava Iyengar-Brahmin community to which Jayalalitha and her family members belong.
The petition also sought a direction to exhume Jayalalithaa’s body to conduct the DNA test.
The petitioner said that under the provisions of the Indian constitution every citizen has the right to know and that she wants to know her identity through her natural/biological mother.
She referred to a Supreme Court judgment in the N.D. Tiwari case that “every adoptee has the right to know his/her identity and the right to receive information relating to his/her birth, if it is in his/her best interest.”
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