DMK chief to be buried at Marina Beach

Chennai, Aug 08: DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi will have a burial site at Chennai's Marina Beach, a court decided today, ending an ugly political row as thousands mourned the death of the last of the towering politicians in Tamil Nadu.

The ruling AIADMK had denied permission for the five-time chief minister's memorial at the Marina Beach.

The Madras High Court sat around midnight at the home of acting Chief Justice Huluvadi G Ramesh to hear DMK's petition after the AIADMK, its lifelong rival, refused its request.

Karunanidhi, who dominated the state's politics for six decades along with arch-rivals MG Ramachandran and later, J Jayalalithaa, died at 94 on Monday.