The Madras High Court will hear on Tuesday (January 2, 2024) a writ petition filed by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin in 2014, when he was the treasurer of the DMK, seeking a CBI probe into the Moulivakkam building collapse tragedy in Chennai that left 61 dead and many injured.
The nearly 10-year-old writ petition was heard last on March 10, 2017 and was not listed for hearing thereafter. After a break of nearly seven years, it has been listed again before the first Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy on the first working day of 2024.
The tragedy had occurred at a residential project, ‘Trust Heights,’ developed by real estate firm Prime Sristi Housing Private Limited on Kundrathur Main Road in Moulivakkam near Porur on June 28, 2014. An under-construction 11-storey tower named ‘The Faith’ had collapsed onto an adjoining tower named ‘The Belief.’
