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The Madras High Court connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025) came crossed a funny lawsuit of a “missing nationalist park” astatine Tiruvottiyur and directed the Chennai Collector arsenic good arsenic Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) Commissioner to behaviour an enquiry and study to the tribunal wrong 4 weeks.
First Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan said, a erstwhile councillor of the erstwhile Tiruvottiyur Municipality, present merged with GCC, had travel up with a superior allegation of encroachment of an full nationalist park.
Therefore, the Judges directed the Collector to behaviour an enquiry done an due gross section authoritative and taxable the study earlier the tribunal connected January 2, 2026. Similarly, the GCC was directed to record an affidavit explaining the steps taken by it pursuant to petitioner’s complaint.
In his affidavit, the petitioner G. Thondan Subramani (70) said helium had served arsenic a councillor of Tiruvottiyur municipality for 2 consecutive presumption betwixt 1996 and 2005. During that period, helium asserted the beingness of a nationalist parkland named Kesavan parkland successful the locality.
The petitioner said the attendance for the municipality conservancy workers utilized to beryllium taken astatine the parkland during his tenure arsenic the councillor. After the section assemblage got merged with the GCC, the parkland had vanished from its determination and alternatively a backstage infirmary had cropped up connected the land, helium complained.
The petitioner said, that portion responding to an exertion made by him nether the Right to Information Act of 2005, the GCC had successful 2023 conceded determination was so a parkland named Kesavan Park successful Tiruvottiyur but had informed the applicant that the parkland was not nether the attraction of the corporation.
On his part, the jurisdictional Tahsildar told the petitioner the onshore successful question had been purchased by an idiosyncratic successful 1903 and her ineligible heirs had sold that spot to a doc successful 2016. The doctor, successful turn, had constructed a infirmary connected the property, the petitioner was informed.
Alleging it appeared to beryllium a lawsuit of fake rubric deeds having been created for the intent of encroaching upon a nationalist park, the petitioner said, the gross officials arsenic good arsenic the GCC had miserably failed to support the nationalist property. He urged the tribunal to bid restoration of the spot into a park.
“l undertake to wage the costs if this nationalist involvement litigation petition is recovered ro beryllium intended for idiosyncratic summation oregon oblique motive,” the petitioner’s affidavit read.
