A four-member AIIMS team
constituted on the directions of Supreme Court examined DMK chief M. Karunanidhi’s
wife Dayalu Ammal in Chennai to ascertain whether she was medically fit to
depose before the special CBI court in Delhi as a witness in the 2G spectrum
allocation scam case. The team of doctors from the All-India Institute of
Medical Sciences in Delhi
Hearing a plea by Ms. Ammal’s
daughter Selvi seeking a direction to exempt her mother from appearing before
the trial court as prosecution witness on medical ground, the Supreme Court on
July 10 directed the AIIMS Director to constitute a medical board to examine
her to assess her condition.
Ms. Selvi had contended that
Ms. Dayalu had been diagnosed with cognitive and behavioural abnormalities in
June 2012 and that she was progressively and gradually losing recognition of
even her near and dear ones.
Earlier, the special CBI
court had on May 31 dismissed Ms. Ammal’s exemption plea, saying she is an
“important witness” as she was a director in Kalaignar TV Pvt Ltd in which an
alleged bribe amount of Rs 200 crore was received.
Mr. Karunanidhi’s daugther
and DMK Rajya Sabha member Kanimozhi is one of the accused in the case.
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