Chennai

The public interest allegation alleged that couple, using their political clout and money power, colluded with SIDCO officials and had encroached upon the said place.

A division bench comprising justices M Sathyanarayanan and P Rajamanickam, while ordering notice to SIDCO, Industries Development Corporation of India and Ma Subramanian in its brief interim order, said, “In light of the communication given by the Public Information Officer of the Tamil Nadu Small Industries D e v e lopment Corporation, notice to the respondents through Court as well as privately returnable on June 29, 2018.”

The petitioner S Parthiban had submitted that Subramanian in his nomination papers filed pursuant to the Assembly elections in 2016, had stated that the property situated in Labour Colony in Guindy, is in the name of his wife Kanchana.

Alleging that the information was false, the petitioner said the above property was allotted to one S K Kannan by the Industries and Commerce Department on February 14, 1959. He died on October 15, 2015, leaving behind his six daughters and only son.

The legal heir certificate issued also confirmed the same and neither the name of Subramanian nor his wife Kanchana is found in the legal heir certificate.

The information given by the Public Information Officer, SIDCO, vide a letter dated June 28, 2016, clearly stated that since the allotment was made in favour of Kannan, either him or his legal heirs are in possession of the said property. But the couple created various illegal documents and on producing the same before SIDCO and other authorities had grabbed the property by demolishing the old structure and constructed a house, the plea said.

The petitioner further submitted that failure of the authorities to act despite his representation on April 12, 2018, to the authorities concerned has led to the present PIL seeking the removal of Subramanian and his wife Kanchana from the property.

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