Chennai: City police registered an FIR against family members of late educationist Jeppiar on charges of cheating and forging documents, based on a complaint by his second daughter Sheela Jeppiar.
Earlier, on June 29, Sheela had approached the city police commissioner’s office with a complaint alleging ill treatment by her family members including her mother, and sought police help to move back into the house of her father inside Sathyabama University.
Sheela was earlier one of the directors of St Joseph’s engineering college under Jeppiaar Institutions and is now separated from her husband Babu Manoharan, who is now the director of the institute. Sheila claimed that she withdrew from her position of permanent trustee of Jeppiaar Institutions after the death of her father last year, on the request of her mother.
Meanwhile, on September 2, Sheela filed another complaint against her family members of criminal conspiracy and fraud. According to her complaint, her husband, her sister Mariazeena and her husband Marie Johnson conspired to grab the trust established by her father and prepared forged documents to show that the latter two had been inducted as trustees. Thereafter, they conspired to obtain a loan of Rs 150 crore from Indian Bank (Thousand Lights branch) in the name of Sathyabama Educational Trust using forged documents, she alleged in her complaint.
Central Crime Branch of the city police have registered an FIR under sections 417 (cheating), 468 (forgery of documents), 471, 420 (cheating), 506 (i) IPC (criminal intimidation), 120b (criminal conspiracy) of IPC against Mariazeena, Maria Johnson and Babu Manoharan and have begun investigations.
