The Tamil Nadu State government confirmed that the land was required for the project and in lieu of it agreed to allot Mr. Vijay a plot in Anna Nagar Western Extension in Padi Village. File. | Photo Credit: PTI
On March 4, 2008, the Tamil Nadu Housing and Urban Development Department had issued an order allotting a plot measuring 11,854 sq ft in Anna Nagar Western Extension, Padi village in Ambattur Taluk, Chennai, to leading Tamil film actor C. Joseph Vijay (currently Chief Minister).
However, in October 2009, R. Karthikeyan, a resident of Chennai’s Shenoy Nagar, moved the Madras High Court challenging the land allotment to the actor. Mr. Karthikeyan submitted that several decades earlier his late father Rathinapandian had owned vast lands in Padi. In 1969, the Tamil Nadu Government had acquired 2.37 acres of land from Rathinapandian in Padi village for the Tamil Nadu Housing Board’s Korattur Neighbourhood Development Scheme.
Published - November 09, 2026 01:51 pm IST
Source: The Hindu · D. Suresh Kumar
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