Hyderabad, April 1 -- In a significant legal setback for Nandamuri Lakshmi Parvathi, the widow of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister NT Rama Rao, the Telangana High Court has dismissed her petition to assume control of the Basavatarakam Medical Trust in Hyderabad.

The court's ruling, delivered by Justice G Radha Rani, rejected her claims based on a purported supplemental will allegedly written by NTR in 1995, which she argued named her as the trust's managing trustee.

Currently, the trust is administered by NTR's son, actor-politician Nandamuri Balakrishna.

The court identified several procedural errors in Lakshmi Parvathi's argument, particularly her failure to adequately demonstrate the unavailability or death of the attesting witn...