The Madras High Court on Wednesday reserved orders on a public interest litigation petition filed against installation of a statue for former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi in Tiruvannamalai town. The court deferred the verdict after it was informed that it had been planned to unveil the statue on June 3, his birth anniversary.
Justices M.S. Ramesh and Mohammed Shaffiq took the decision after Jeeva Educational Trust, managed by Minister for Public Works E.V. Velu’s son E.V. Kumaran, filed an application to the vacate an interim injunction granted by the court on May 19 restraining the Minister and the trust from going ahead with the installation of the statue.
Simultaneously, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) too filed an impleading petition. The party stated that the trust had purchased 92.5 square feet of land from one M. Rajendran in 2021 and gifted it to the party. However, the measurement was wrongly mentioned as 215 square feet in the sale deed as well as the gift deed.
