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The Madras High Court connected Wednesday (October 15, 2025) directed erstwhile Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s niece and ineligible heir J. Deepa to implead her member J. Deepak excessively arsenic 1 of the respondents to a writ petition filed by her challenging the betterment of income taxation and wealthiness taxation dues, to the tune of ₹13.69 crore, by her aunt.
Justice C. Saravanan granted clip till November 3 for the petitioner to implead her member since Income Tax section elder lasting counsel A.P. Srinivas told the tribunal that though some the siblings had been declared arsenic the ineligible heirs of the erstwhile Chief Minister, Mr. Deepak had not challenged the betterment proceedings.
The tribunal was informed that the Tax Recovery Officer had initially passed an bid connected July 23, 2025 for recovering a overmuch larger sum of ₹36.56 crore, assessed to beryllium the arrears to beryllium paid by the erstwhile Chief Minister from the appraisal years 1991-92 to 2011-12, from the 2 ineligible heirs who had inherited her properties.
Ms. Deepa filed a archetypal writ petition connected August 7, 2025 challenging the betterment connected the grounds that immoderate notice, assessment, oregon betterment proceeding issued successful the sanction of a deceased idiosyncratic was wholly void ab initio and unenforceable and that the writ petitioner could not beryllium termed arsenic an assessee successful default.
She besides contended that nary computation expanse had been furnished to her though galore taxation lawsuit appeals, regarding her aunt’s taxation dues, were inactive pending. However, during the pendency of that writ petition, the Tax Recovery serviceman issued a revised betterment bid for a lesser magnitude of ₹13.69 crore connected August 4, 2025.
Justice Saravanan took cognisance of the revised betterment bid and dismissed Ms. Deepa’s archetypal writ petition connected September 18, 2025 since it had go infructuous. Hence, she had present filed a 2nd writ petition challenging the revised betterment bid excessively connected mutiple grounds.
The petitioner’s counsel told the Court that his lawsuit had nary means to verify the correctness of the request for taxation arrears since she had nary entree to her aunt till the latter’s decease connected December 5, 2016 and that she got declared arsenic 1 of the ineligible heirs by the High Court connected May 27, 2020.
Even aft the Court’s order, the Chennai Collector handed implicit the possession of Jayalalithaa’s Poes Garden bungalow to the ineligible heirs lone connected December 10, 2021 and an inventory taken astatine the premises did not pb to immoderate documents related to the taxation dues, the counsel told the Court.
When the Judge said, the erstwhile Chief Minister’s chartered accountant would person been successful the cognize however of the details and helium would adjacent person her idiosyncratic sanction and password for accessing her records connected the Income Tax portal, the counsel replied that the chartered accountant excessively died during COVID-19.
Since the different ineligible heir excessively was a indispensable enactment to the contiguous writ proceedings, the Judge granted clip for the petitioner to implead her member and asked Mr. Srinivas to instrumentality announcement connected behalf of the Tax Recovery Officer.
