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The Madras High Court connected Monday (June 15, 2026) deferred its orders connected a plea to condone a hold of 839 days successful preferring a 3rd enactment transgression revision petition against the acquittal of erstwhile DMK Minister P. Geetha Jeevan and her household members from a 2002 disproportionate assets lawsuit to the tune of ₹2.31 crore.
Justice G.K. Ilanthiraiyan took the telephone aft proceeding arguments precocious by the counsel for revision petitioner S. Shanmugasundaram, an advocator from Thoothukudi, and others. The petitioner claimed to person preferred the 3rd enactment revision since the prosecution did not entreaty against the 2022 bid of acquittal.
The tribunal was told that the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption (DVAC) had registered a lawsuit successful March 2002 chiefly against Ms. Jeevan’s begetter N. Periasamy for having allegedly amassed wealthiness disproportionate to his known sources of income betwixt 1996 and 2001.
Periasamy (since dead) had served arsenic a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing Thoothukudi constituency during the cheque play and his girl Ms. Jeevan was the chairperson of Thoothukudi District Panchayat Council betwixt October 25, 1996 and October 24, 2001.
According to the prosecution, Periasamy had acquired pecuniary resources and properties acold beyond his known sources of income successful his sanction and besides that of his woman P. Ebenesarammal; sons N.P. Raja and N.P. Jegan, girl Ms. Jeevan and son-in-law P. Jeevan Jacob Rajendran.
The constabulary quantified the disproportionate assets acquired by the household members betwixt May 13, 1996 and March 31, 2001 to beryllium ₹2.31 crore and laid a complaint expanse against them successful 2003 nether the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act of 1988 arsenic good arsenic the Indian Penal Code.
However, the proceedings got prolonged for years unneurotic and culminated successful an bid of acquittal passed by the Thoothukudi Principal District Court lone connected December 14, 2022. Since Periasamy had died successful May 2017, the charges levelled against him stood abated.
The proceedings justice acquitted the remainder of the 5 accused aft observing that they had satisfactorily accounted for the properties and different resources that stood successful their names and had besides proved autarkic sources of income for acquiring those properties.
“This tribunal is of the presumption that the prosecution has miserably failed to beryllium beyond each tenable doubts the charges against A2 to A6... that they had intentionally aided the nationalist servant, deceased A1, by holding properties oregon pecuniary resources successful their names connected behalf of A1 which were disproportionate to the known root of income of A1,” the proceedings tribunal verdict read.
Explaining the crushed for having challenged the judgement aft a agelong hold of 839 days, the petitioner said, helium was initially waiting for the DVAC to record an entreaty against the acquittal. However, helium recovered that the bureau did not similar immoderate entreaty erstwhile Ms. Jeevan was the Minister for Social Welfare and Women Empowerment successful the DMK’s cabinet.
Thereafter, the petitioner made an exertion earlier the proceedings tribunal seeking a certified copies of the judgement of acquittal and different documents, but the tribunal refused to springiness him the copies. So, helium had to attack the High Court and Justice G. Jayachandran had connected June 13, 2024 directed the tiral tribunal to furnish the certified copies.
Stating that a batch of clip got consumed successful obtaining the certified copies since helium was a 3rd enactment to the case, the petitioner said that helium was yet capable to record the revision, on with the condone hold petition, earlier the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court lone connected July 3, 2025.
The petitions were transferred to the main spot of the High Court successful Chennai since they were related to a lawsuit involving a erstwhile legislator.
