Madurai: The CB-CID investigation report in the Palani temple land fraud case was filed in the High Court. The government side objected to providing a copy of the report to those who had filed petitions seeking a CBI investigation.
AIADMK former MLA Venugopal Senathipathi, Thandayuthapani Swamigal Mutt trustee Annapoorani Sivakumar, and Palani DMK municipal chairperson Uma Maheswari filed petitions in the Madurai Bench of the High Court seeking to transfer the case related to the fraudulent registration of Rs. 100 crore worth of land belonging to the Palani temple in the names of private individuals to the CBI.
According to the petitions, 1.35 acres of land belonging to the Palani temple has been fraudulently registered. For this registration, the truth was concealed, and a case was filed in the High Court to obtain an order.
While the regular sub-registrar was on leave, the registration was carried out using the acting sub-registrar. In connection with this fraud, several people, including the district registrar, office assistant, and regular sub-registrar, need to be questioned.
Therefore, they had stated that the CBCID investigation should be stayed and the inquiry should be transferred to the CBI.
This petition came up for hearing today before the bench of Judges C.V. Karthikeyan and R. Sakthivel. On behalf of the petitioners, lawyers Marees Kumar, Veera Kathiravan, and Ravindran argued.
On the government side, the CB-CID investigation report in the land fraud case was submitted to the court in a sealed envelope.
It was argued that if the details of the investigation report are provided to the petitioners, the investigation will be affected. Therefore, the government requested that a copy of the investigation report not be given to the petitioners. Following this, the judges adjourned the hearing to Aug. 12.
