CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has ordered notices on a writ petition seeking to stop construction of residential flats on land belonging to the Sivagiriyar Trust and direct the authorities to recover and hand over the land to the appropriate authority, including a court appointed administrator. Justice K. Suguna, ordering notices to respondent-authorities and private parties, returnable in two weeks, also permitted serving of private notice. The petition, filed by the ward beneficiary of the Trust, N. Jagannathan, contended that the land at Virugambakkam had been leased out to a private studio.
On the completion of the lease period, the lessee neither surrendered the properties to the Chennai Collector nor paid the leasehold rents and profits. Instead, the studio joined hands with a builder to construct flats.
Stating that the Collector and other officials, who were the guardians and trustees of the Trust, had failed to stop the work, the petitioner prayed for a direction restraining the respondents from alienating the leased property to third parties.
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