Chennai: The Madras high court directed the Tamil Nadu Small Industries Development Corporation (Sidco) to consider a complaint alleging encroachment of public land by DMK MLA and former Chennai corporation Mayor Ma Subramanian. When a PIL was moved by S. Parthiban, the first bench of Chief Justice VK Tahilramani and Justice M Duraiswamy directed the Sudci to dispose of the plea by passing detailed order.
In the petition Parthiban submitted that Subramanian, in his nomination papers filed for the 2016 Tamil Nadu Assembly polls, had stated that a property at Labour Colony in Guindy was registered in the name of his wife, Kanchana.
Dismissing this, the petitioner said industries and commerce department allotted the property to S. K. Kannan in 1959. Kannan died in 2015, leaving behind six daughters and a son. The legal heir certificate had confirmed it and Kanchana’s name was not found in it.
Subramanian had used his power and political influence to create many false documents, which were produced before Sidco and other authorities with an intention to grab the government property. The officials of SIDCO had colluded with Subramanian in the illegal transaction, he alleged.
The petitioner said he sent a representation to the authorities in April. As no action was taken to remove Subramanian and Kanchana from the property, he filed the PIL.
