Madras High Court casts doubts over Jayalalithaa’s death: Why can't we order exhumation of the body of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J.Jayalalithaa, asked Madras high court on Thursday and issued a notice to our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, state governments, central governments and others government bodies. Clearly not happy with the secrecy maintained by people around Jayalalithaa, who was declared to have died on December 5 after 75 days of hospitalization, a vacation bench of the court said, "Even we have our doubts about that." Jayalalithaa was buried at the MGR memorial on the Marina Beach located in Chennai on December 6. The vacation bench hearing a public interest litigation of a party worker said: "We also saw in newspapers that the Chief Minister was recovering, and that she was eating, signing papers and even conducting meetings. And then suddenly she was dead." Pointing out that no revenue division officer had seen the body, neither were there any medical records furnished; the bench asked, "Why not, at least after her death, some proof was given." The bench recalled similar situation in the late 1980s when the then chief minister M G Ramachandran was taking treatment both in Chennai and in the US. "When MGR was taking treatment, the government released video of the chief minister," the bench said. Advocate general of the Tamil Nadu R Muthukumarswamy, however, said the first bench of the high court was hearing a similar PIL and it had been adjourned to January 4. Another public interest litigation on the issue was coming up before the Supreme Court on Friday for hearing. The bench then issued notices to the PM and the state and central governments. It adjourned the case to January 9 for further hearing. Madhan A Gopala Rao accepted notice on behalf of the Centre. The PIL filed by a party wants high court to appoint a committee comprising three retired judges of the Supreme Court to go into the medical records relating to treatment given to Jayalalithaa.