The Madras Excessive Courtroom on Monday dismissed a contemporary writ petition searching for path for an enquiry and submission of a standing report, previous to polling, into the property disclosed by actor and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar for the 2026 Tamil Nadu Meeting elections.
The Division Bench of Chief Justice SA Dharmadhikari and Justice G Arul Murugan rejected the plea filed by Chennai resident MP Venkatesh on the grounds that it was already seized of a separate writ petition elevating considerably comparable points concerning alleged discrepancies within the election affidavits submitted by the TVK chief.
Within the earlier proceedings, the Excessive Courtroom had issued discover to the Election Fee of India (ECI) and the Earnings Tax (IT) division on April 20, in reference to the allegations of undisclosed property exceeding Rs 100 crore within the Type 26 affidavit filed by Vijay for the Perambur constituency.
Within the current plea, the petitioner sought a time-bound preliminary enquiry by a number of statutory authorities, together with the IT division, the Ministry of Company Affairs (MCA), and the Election Fee, into the alleged suppression and misrepresentation of monetary disclosures made within the nomination papers.
The petition particularly referred to a mortgage of Rs 12.6 crore prolonged to the candidate’s partner and a switch of Rs 20 crore to a belief, contending that these transactions lacked sufficient disclosure concerning their nature, supply of funds, and underlying monetary construction.
The plea alleged that such disclosures mirrored monetary obfuscation, mischaracterisation of transactions, and suppression of fabric particulars, thereby undermining the statutory requirement of full and true disclosure beneath the prescribed Type 26 affidavit.
It additional contended that incomplete or deceptive disclosures would quantity to deemed non-disclosure in legislation, attracting violation of Part 33A of the Illustration of the Individuals Act, 1951, and potential penal penalties beneath Part 125A of the Act.
The petitioner additionally argued that such non-compliance would adversely affect the voters’s proper to make an knowledgeable selection.
Vijay, who floated the TVK in 2024, is making his electoral debut in 2026 from the Perambur constituency in Chennai and Tiruchirappalli East in central Tamil Nadu.
