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The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court connected Thursday (October 9, 2025) granted bail to Pon Vasanth, hubby of Madurai Mayor Indrani. Justice S. Srimathy granted the bail with conditions.
Pon Vasanth is 1 of the accused successful the property taxation ‘scam’ successful the Madurai Corporation. The Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the multi-crore scam arrested him successful Chennai connected August 12.
The prosecution said that the fraud came to airy successful September 2024 erstwhile the past Madurai Corporation Commissioner C. Dinesh Kumar recovered immoderate irregularities successful the records, and lodged a constabulary complaint.
An audit squad recovered that spot taxes of 150 buildings had been deliberately reduced without pursuing due procedures, and their reappraisal uncovered irregularities successful the records of UTIS, an online spot taxation absorption platform. Bribes were accepted to little taxes, the prosecution said.
