Madras High Court refuses to direct cops to register FIR against AIADMK MP Thambidurai’s wife

Justice P. N. Prakash dismissed the petitions filed by P. G. Saleem, N. Mohan and Uma Prasad, which sought to direct the police to register an FIR and investigate their complaints against Dr Banumathi.

The petitioners’ grievance was that they were the owners of small patches of land, surrounding which Banumathi had purchased all the lands and established an educational institution in the name of St.Peter’s Engineering College in Tiruvallur district and thereby blocking the access to the land belonging to the petitioner.

The judge said, “It is an admitted fact that Banumathi is the wife of Thambidurai, a sitting MP belonging to AIADMK party and therefore, it is alleged that that he is misusing his official position to grab the property of the petitioners. The police have filed a status report in all the three cases and have stated that after conducting due enquiries, they have closed the complaints on the ground that the dispute is civil in nature and does not disclose the commission of a cognisable offence for the police to register an FIR. Both sides produced the site map which admittedly shows that small patches of lands belonging to the petitioners are relocated amidst the lands of the college”.

Pointing out the civil suits filed by Mohan, one of the petitioners, the judge said even according to Mohan, he was not in possession of the said property and therefore, there was no question of Banumathi forcibly dispossessing him from the property.