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The Madras High Court connected Friday (March 27, 2026) sought the effect of Murasoli Trust, associated with the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), to a nationalist involvement litigation (PIL) petition seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged concern of 12 grounds of Panchami onshore (meant for Scheduled Castes) successful Chennai and besides regarding its different activities.
The First Division Bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan permitted elder counsel P. Wilson to instrumentality announcement connected behalf of the spot and record a elaborate response, wrong 2 weeks, to the PIL petition preferred by Tiruvenelveli-based advocator Kutty alias K. Venkatachalapathy, 48, done his counsel connected grounds V.R. Shanmuganathan.
During the people of arguments connected Friday, Mr. Wilson accused the PIL petitioner of not having disclosed that helium was a territory caput of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He besides told the tribunal that it was a politically motivated litigation with its genesis having begun erstwhile Union Minister L. Murugan of the BJP served arsenic the vice-chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) successful 2020.
The judges asked the elder counsel to marque each his submissions successful penning and ordered notices to the CBI arsenic good arsenic the NCSC. In his affidavit, the petitioner stated that Murasoli Trust had filed a writ petition successful the High Court successful 2020 to restrain the NCSC from inquiring into a ailment regarding the Panchami land. Justice S.M. Subramaniam of the High Court had dismissed the petition connected January 10, 2024.
During the proceeding of its 2020 case, the spot had relied upon a papers numbered arsenic 4381/1974 to assertion that Anjugam Pathipagam had purchased the spot from a idiosyncratic named P. Madhavan Nair and that a patta, too, was issued for it successful 1985. However, determination were inconsistencies successful the assertion made by the spot and the gross records maintained by the State government, the PIL petitioner claimed.
Arguing the lawsuit for him, elder counsel Dama Seshadri Naidu said, the imperishable onshore registry and patta transcript contented registry had mentioned different papers numbered 4383/1974 and the Saidapet Sub-Registrar’s bureau had confirmed that nary papers numbered 4381/1974 was ever registered. Therefore, determination were superior discrepancies with respect to onshore ownership, helium claimed.
The elder counsel said, the NCSC was lone a recommendatory assemblage with nary investigative limb to assistance it successful arriving astatine the information and hence, it was indispensable to bid a CBI probe into the issue. In his affidavit, the PIL petitioner had besides said, the objectives of Murasoli Trust were not to marque profits but the spot was moving a paper titled Murasoli, which received some nationalist and backstage advertisements.
Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin was the managing trustee of Murasoli Trust, which had reportedly accumulated reserves and surplus amounting to ₹143.30 crore arsenic connected March 31, 2025, the petitioner said and insisted that these issues, too, telephone for a elaborate probe by the CBI.
