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The Madras High Court has directed the Greater Chennai Commissioner of Police to behaviour an enquiry regarding K.T.R. Raja Karuppan Chetty alias Karuppiah, an worker of noted educationist and philanthropist Meena Muthiah who passed distant successful Ooty connected May 2, 2026, having amassed ₹800 crore belonging to the Chettinad family.
Justice Mohammed Shaffiq directed the Commissioner of Police to instrumentality due enactment connected the ground of a ailment which accused Mr. Chetty of having misappropriated the immense sum of wealth by misusing his proximity with Meena Muthiah during her beingness and by keeping her lad M.A.M.M. Annamalai astatine a distance.
The justice made it wide the constabulary enquiry indispensable reason astatine the earliest, since the deceased was the caput of Kumara Rajah Muthiah School of Traditional Arts & Crafts, a registered nine which runs Chettinad Vidyashram schoolhouse successful Chennai and “thus the interests of students are besides astatine stake.”
The orders were passed connected a writ petition filed by V. Palaniappan, a subordinate of the registered society. Representing him, Senior counsel J. Ravindran told the tribunal that the petitioner had lodged a nine-page ailment with the Commissioner connected May 26, 2026 levelling charges of transgression conspiracy, forgery, cheating, transgression breach of trust, fabrication of records and truthful connected against Mr. Chetty.
According to the complainant, Mr. Chetty had joined the Chettinad household successful a humble home capacity. Over time, by exploiting his closeness to Meena Muthiah, helium entrenched himself wrong the household’s administrative operation and capitalised connected interior household dynamics to presume implicit power implicit communications, administration, and entree to household members.
“Once she fell prey to his ill-motive, helium had secured each her wealth. Thereafter, erstwhile she identified his ulterior motive and started digging up the secret, helium cleverly planned a travel to Ooty, without adjacent informing immoderate of her relatives, including her son, that too, erstwhile she was anemic and her enactment was restricted owed to her precocious age, deliberately putting her beingness astatine risk,” the ailment read.
Accusing Mr. Chetty of having inducted his household members successful the trusts instituted by the Chettinad household and accumulating wealthiness successful their names too, the complainant said, a elaborate probe into the full contented would uncover however helium had siphoned disconnected the nine funds and compromised the charitable objectives of the Chettinad family.
Mr. Palaniappan besides accused Mr. Chetty of not having handed implicit the accounts and administrative power of the registered nine to industrialist P. Vijayakumar Reddy who had been appointed arsenic its interim head by the High Court past month. He said, Mr. Chetty was continuing to retreat funds from the society’s slope accounts and thereby causing terrible administrative hindrance.
