Chennai: The Apollo Hospitals, where former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa was hospitalised, has informed the Madras High Court that it hasn't preserved her biological samples collected during her hospitalisation in 2016.
The hospital management gave the response to a query raised by Justice S Vaidyanathan on a petition by a woman, who claimed herself to be the biological daughter of Jayalalithaa.
On February 23, the judge had issued notice to Apollo Hospitals on a sub-application by the woman, who sought a direction for a DNA test to establish her parentage.
The woman had claimed she had been given in adoption to Jayalalithaa's sister and her husband decades ago and she came to know about it from her foster father in March last year before he died.
The judge directed the hospitals to file the reply on Thursday and posted the matter for further hearing to June 4.
Jayalalithaa was admitted to the hospital on September 22, 2016 following complaints of fever and dehydration, but developed complications later. She died on December 5 that year.
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