Summary:
Chennai, Dec 6 (PTI) The Madras High Court on Monday directed the Income Tax department to file applications bringing in the names of J Deepa and J Deepak, the legal heirs of late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, in the records relating to the wealth and income tax cases pending against her.
Justices R Mahadevan and Mohammed Shaffiq gave the direction when the appeals from the IT department came up for hearing today.
The bench gave two weeks time to the IT department counsel Karthick Ranganathan for bringing in the names of Deepa, the niece and Deepak, nephew of Jayalalithaa on record in the cases pending against her for over two decades.
According to Ranganathan, Jayalalitha owed Rs 10.12 crore towards wealth tax arrears from 1990-91 to 2011-12 and another Rs 6.63 crore as income tax dues from 2005-06 to 2011-12 to the IT department.
Her properties in Poes Garden here and the ones in Hyderabad had been attached by the department.
It had also filed cases against her for the non-payment of the taxes in 1997.