New Delhi, Nov. 27 (Agencies): The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition of a woman who claims to be the daughter of the late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa, telling her she free to move the high court.

A bench of Justices M.B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta also refused to allow the plea of the 37-year-old woman to conduct a DNA test that could prove her claim that she is Jayalalithaa’s daughter.

Senior Advocate Indira Jaising, who appeared for the woman, had also sought cremation of Jayalalithaa’s body in line with Hindu rites since she was an Iyengar Brahmin.

The court said the petitioner is at liberty to approach the high court.

After Jayalalitha died on December 5 last year at the age of 68, as chief minister and head of the AIADMK, she was buried instead of being cremated, allegedly at the behest of her companion Sasikala, who wanted to keep the family away as a cremation would require their participation.

Her death had sparked a power struggle in the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, but the faction led by Sasikala has been sidelined and Sasikala herself is in jail in a corruption case.

Amrutha, a.k.a. Manjula, who claims she was born on August 14, 1980 in Jayalalithaa’s home, had moved the petition along with two older cousins said to have been privy to the facts of her birth.

Amrutha claims she was brought up in Bangalore by Jayalalithaa's elder sister Shylaja and her husband Sarathy, and had always taken them to be her real parents until a confession by Sarathy just before his death last March. Shylaja had died in 2015.

Amrutha suggests her family elders had entered into a pact of secrecy after her birth to protect the unmarried Jayalalithaa's honour and her political career.