The submission was made earlier than the choose reserved his verdict on a writ petition filed by the belief in 2020 to ban the National Commission for the Scheduled Castes from inquiring into the title of the property.
The Chennai Collector on Thursday knowledgeable the Madras High Court that DMK’s official organ Murasoli is functioning from a land classified as Ryotwari within the income data and that it is not a Panchami land, meant for the Scheduled Castes, as alleged by some.
Appearing earlier than Justice S.M. Subramaniam, Additional Advocate General (AAG) R. Ramanlal submitted a letter written to him by Collector Rashmi Siddharth Zagade on Wednesday itemizing out all obtainable particulars in regards to the property at Kodambakkam in Chennai.
“Murasoli office is located in Egmore Taluk, Nungambakkam Village, Mahalingapuram area. Perusal of Egmore Taluk Permanent Land Register reveals that it is located in Block No. 36, Town Survey No. 622/38 classified as Ryotwari land,” the communication learn.
The submission was made earlier than the choose reserved his verdict on a writ petition filed by the belief in 2020 to ban the National Commission for the Scheduled Castes (NCSC) from inquiring into the title of the property on the basis of a complaint lodged by a BJP functionary.
Senior Counsel P. Wilson had argued that solely a civil court docket may determine upon the title and not the NCSC, that too on the idea of a politically-motivated criticism. On his half, the AAG stated, the contentious 12 grounds and 1,825 sq.ft., of land was really part of a a lot bigger extent of 22 acres and 79 cents.
The 22 acres was acquired by a German firm named Carl Simon Soehne Company in 1912 by an official assignee appointed by the Madras High Court. Subsequently, the corporate bought liquidated in 1916. The then Governor General in Council ceased its operations underneath the Enemy Trading Ordinance, 1916 and appointed a liquidator.
The liquidator had offered the property, by public public sale, to Best and Company Limited. The sale deed was registered on December 19, 1916. Thereafter, Parvathy Madhavan Nair, spouse of a former High Court choose, had bought your entire extent of 22 acres and 79 cents on July 23, 1936 and sub divided it into many elements.
The landlady had settled 16 grounds and 288 sq. ft of the sub divided land in favour of her son Madhavan Nair on July 13, 1957 and the latter had offered 12 grounds and 1,825 sq.ft., to Anjugam Pathipagam (a publishing firm named after DMK stalwart M. Karunanidhi’s mom) on June 22, 1974.
The AAG stated that part of Kodambakkam freeway as properly as the Mahalingapuram Ayyappan temple had been now situated within the different sub divisions of the property. He acknowledged that on December 26, 2019 itself the then Chief Secretary had knowledgeable the NCSC that the belief was not located on a Panchami land.
Opposing the writ petition, Additional Solicitor General AR.L. Sundaresan, representing the NCSC, stated a writ of prohibition may not be issued when the fee was totally empowered to inquire right into a criticism of a Panchami land having been usurped by a non-public entity.
Senior Counsel S. Ravi, representing the complainant R. Srinivasan, stated it had now come to mild that the property in query was really owned by Anjugam Pathipagam and that Murasoli Trust was solely a tenant. He stated the belief may very properly submit these details earlier than the NCSC.
Mr. Wilson requested how the NCSC may have entertained the criticism on the first occasion when the complainant had not filed any materials to substantiate his declare relating to Panchami land. Pointing out that the criticism was lodged in 2019, he stated, even after 5 years, not a bit of paper had been produced by the complainant to again such a declare.