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The Madras High Court connected Friday refused to walk immoderate interim bid successful favour of the Tamil Nadu authorities connected a writ entreaty filed by it against a azygous judge’s August 2025 bid directing it to wage rental arrears of ₹2.18 crore to the landlords of the Tambaram Police Commissionerate.
First Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan simply adjourned the proceeding connected the writ entreaty by 2 months aft making an oral reflection that it was perfectly not close connected the portion of the State to squat connected a backstage property.
When Advocate General P.S. Raman said a erstwhile Commissioner of Police had unilaterally agreed for a monthly rent of ₹10.14 lakh though the Public Works Department (PWD) assessed rent was lone ₹6.33 lakh, the Chief Justice replied that the tribunal would person to marque adverse comments if it goes heavy into the issue.
The Chief Justice besides recalled an lawsuit erstwhile helium served arsenic the Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court and said the authorities implicit determination had constructed a infirmary connected a backstage onshore and near the landlord successful a lurch without paying him compensation oregon giving an alternate onshore for years together.
However, the A-G told the tribunal that the Tamil Nadu authorities had already identified a nationalist onshore for the operation of the Tambaram Police Commissionerate and the Chief Minister would beryllium laying the instauration successful February. The operation would get implicit by the extremity of 2027.
On his part, elder counsel V. Raghavachari, representing the owners of the gathering successful which the Commissionerate was located astatine Semmozhi Salai successful Sholinganallur, told the tribunal that his clients had rented retired the spot lone connected the assurance of a monthly rent of ₹10.14 lakh.
However, the authorities refused to wage the rent agreed upon by the serviceman who served arsenic the archetypal Commissioner of Police successful Tambaram. Hence, the landlords insisted connected vacating the property. When that petition excessively was not heeded, they were forced to record a writ petition.
Justice N. Anand Venkatesh disposed of the writ petition successful August 2025 aft observing the “lesser said is the better” since the Tambaram Police Commissionerate had produced earlier the tribunal 2 antithetic versions of the aforesaid papers regarding the rental quality with its landlords.
After signaling the undertaking of the Commissionerate that it would vacate the spot by the extremity of 2027, the justice had directed it to wage rental arrears of ₹2.18 crore to the landlords and besides ordered an yearly summation of the rent by 10% for the years 2026 and 2027 and hence the contiguous writ appeal.
