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The Madras High Court has directed Greater Chennai Commissioner of Police to behaviour an enquiry regarding the alleged “mystery” down the decease of noted educationist and philanthropist Meena Muthiah successful Ooty connected May 2, 2026 and the relation of her servant K.T.R. Raja Karuppan Chetty alias Karuppiah successful her “suspicious” death.
Justice Mohammed Shaffiq has besides directed the Commissioner to instrumentality enactment connected the ground of a ailment accusing Mr. Chetty of having amassed ₹800 crore belonging to the Chettinad household by misusing his proximity with Meena Muthiah and by keeping her lad M.A.M.M. Annamalai astatine a distance.
The justice made it wide the constabulary enquiry indispensable conclude, astatine the earliest, since she was the caput of Kumara Rajah Muthiah School of Traditional Arts & Crafts, a registered nine which runs the 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. The petitioner had lodged a nine-page ailment with the constabulary 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 initially joined the Chettinad household successful a humble home capacity. Over time, by exploiting his proximity 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.
“The circumstances surrounding the decease of Dr. Meena Muthiah are profoundly suspicious. The accused has deliberately obstructed immoderate efforts to ascertain the existent aesculapian origin of her demise. He flew her remains from Ooty to Chennai without adjacent informing her lad of the archetypal travel, nor did helium pass him of his ain mother’s passing. Furthermore, helium orchestrated her past rites connected that precise aforesaid evening successful undue haste, intentionally creating chaos during the ceremonial to divert attraction distant from the enigma surrounding her death,” Mr. Palaniappan alleged.
Accusing Mr. Chetty of having amassed wealthiness disproportionate to his known sources of income, the complainant said, a elaborate probe into the 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.
