CHENNAI: Justice V Lakshminarayanan of the Madras High Court on Monday sought reply of the state government to a petition filed by Minister for Water Resources Duraimurugan praying for quashing a Government Order issued on August 1, 2019, by the previous AIADMK government to transfer a disproportionate assets (DA) case from a Vellore court to the special court for MP/MLA cases, Chennai.
The judge granted time till October 23 for the state government to file the reply; and accordingly, adjourned the hearing.
The DVAC had registered the case against Duraimurugan and his wife D Shanthakumari in 2011, when AIADMK was in power, for allegedly amassing Rs 1.4 crore assets disproportionate to his known sources of income during his tenure as PWD minister in the 2006-11 DMK government.
However, the CJM Court in Vellore discharged them in 2017 and the DVAC filed a revision petition in the high court. In the meantime, following the GO issued by the state government, the case was transferred to the Chennai court.
HC orders probe into compensation for Sridevi kin
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Monday directed the authorities to inquire into the complaints of SK Sivakami of Puzhudhivakkam in Chennai, that the highways department had wrongly disbursed a compensation of over Rs 1 crore to the family members of late actress Sridevi for 1,420 sqft of land for widening ECR.
She claimed that her family inherited the land from her grandfather who purchased large swaths of land on ECR in 1943. Justice Krishnan Ramasamy issued the direction on the petition filed by Sivakami.
The petitioner alleged that the district revenue officer for land acquisition, attached to the department, and other authorities had misused and abused their official position to cause wrongful loss to the state exchequer and wrongful gain for the officials. She sought the court order for the authorities to hold a proper inquiry into the disbursal.
