The Madras High Court, on Wednesday (December 3, 2025), allowed a petition filed by former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s nephew J. Deepak to implead himself in a writ petition filed by his sister J. Deepa challenging the recovery of income tax and wealth tax dues, to the tune of ₹13.69 crore, by her aunt.
Justice C. Saravanan permitted him to be impleaded as one of the parties to the case after he filed an affidavit stating that he came to know about the case filed by his sister only through a news report published in The Hindu after the previous hearing of the case on October 15.
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The impleading petitioner’s counsel S.L. Sudarsanam said the High Court had declared his client as well as his sister as the legal heirs of their aunt who had died intestate and therefore, it was necessary to hear him too before taking any decision on his sister’s writ petition.
According to A.P. Srinivas, senior standing counsel for the Income Tax department, the Tax Recovery Officer had initially passed an order on July 23 this year for recovering a much larger sum of ₹36.56 crore, assessed to be the arrears to be paid by the former Chief Minister from the assessment years 1991-92 to 2011-12, from the two legal heirs who had inherited her properties.
