It was at 9.30 p.m. on September 22, 2016, that then Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa called out for help. According to her aide V.K. Sasikala, Jayalalithaa had indicated she was unwell while she was in the bathroom situated on the first floor of her Poes Garden residence, after having brushed her teeth.
In an affidavit filed before the Justice A. Arumughaswamy Commission (probing Jayalalithaa’s death), Sasikala provides an account of what transpired at Jayalalithaa’s residence before she was rushed to hospital.