IT dept seizes another OMR property of Sasikala clan, grabbed from music director Gangai Amaran in 1994
The Income-Tax Department attached another sprawling property on OMR belonging to VK Sasikala on Wednesday. The property, a farm house located on over 25 acres of land at Payyanur, once belonged to noted film music director Gangai Amaran which he was forced to sell to Sasikala in 1994.
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The property includes the land that once belonged to the music director, beside other areas, sources said. Last October, the I-T Department has attached the Siruthavur farm house in the name of J Ilavarasi and VN Sudhakaran, relatives of Sasikala and also the Kodanad Estate, belonging to Sasikala.
Amaran had earlier said that Baskaran, son of Sasikalaa’s sister Vanitha, had taken him to the Poes Garden residence of Jayalalithaa at that time. There he met Sasikalaa, who told him that the Chief Minister had visited the Payyanur land and liked it very much, and that she wanted to buy it. Then, Amaran had said the house was not for sale, but he was later forced to sell it for Rs 13.1 lakh.
The I-T official said that these properties were purchased by the three as they were benamis of Jayalalithaa. Last year, the Department had attached a total of 84 properties, in two phases, worth over Rs 1,900 crore belonging to Sasikala and her kin.
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