New Delhi: Former Samata Party president Jaya Jaitly was on Friday allowed by the Supreme court to meet her party colleague, bed-ridden and Alzheimer’s-hit former Defence Minister George Feranndes once every fortnight for 15 minutes.
A bench headed by Justice P Sathasivam allowed the plea of Jaitly who had approached the apex court after the Delhi High Court had denied her the permission to visit the ailing 82-year-old leader. Jaitly, a close political associate of Fernandes, had earlier moved the high court after the ailing leader’s family members had not allowed her to meet him.
The high court had on April 17 denied her the permission to visit him while dismissing her plea for her impleadment in a civil suit filed by Fernandes’ brothers seeking access to him.
The high court had said she had no legal right to claim visitation rights to the former Samata Party leader. (PTI)
