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Syed Amin Jafri in Hyderabad
Nandamuri Lakshmi Parvathi, widow of former chief minister N T Rama Rao, filed a criminal defamation suit on Wednesday against Dr Kakarla Subba Rao, an eminent radiologist and author of the book A Doctor's Story of Life and Death.
Parvathi went to the Hyderabad metropolitan magistrate's court for filing the defamation case.
The matter has been listed for admission on August 17.
"Today, I filed the criminal defamation case in the metropolitan magistrate's court. The magistrate asked me lot of questions and I gave my replies. I told the court that I lost my personal image and NTR's image also was lowered in public esteem due to the tendentious references by Dr Subba Rao in his book. I am seeking justice from the court, I stated," Parvathi told rediff.com.
In her deposition in the court, Parvathi recalled her association with NTR.
"I am the wife of NTR. NTR was a very big person. He was the National Front chairman and he became the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh three times. NTR loved me very much and married me. But Dr Kakarla Subba Rao made defamatory references to us in his book, thereby causing lot of embarrassment to me," she pointed out.
Parvathi contended in her petition that being a radiologist and not a cardiologist, Dr Subba Rao was not the personal doctor of NTR, who suffered from cardiac ailment for over two decades.
"NTR was 74 (at the time of his death) and he had diabetes for nearly 35 years. He also had blood pressure. He suffered paralytic stroke thrice in the 1990s and he also underwent bypass surgery in 1984. He was under the care of cardiologists and other specialists who came every week and conducted check-ups on him," the petitioner recalled.
She said that a comprehensive health check-up of NTR done at the CDR hospital in Hyderabad on December 1, 1995, several weeks before his death, revealed that everything was normal except for blood clotting of a vein between the ear and brain.
Due to this clotting, he might have suffered the heart attack later and died, she added.
Parvathi also denied the allegations that there was any delay in calling the doctors on the fateful night when NTR suffered the fatal cardiac attack.
She alleged that without being a personal doctor of NTR, Dr Subba Rao made certain 'unnecessary and unfounded' allegations against the late leader that he was taking steroids to father a child through her.
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