Madras High Court Dismisses Fresh Plea Seeking ECI Probe Into Assets Declared By TVK Chief Vijay

The bench of Chief Justice SA Dharmadhikari and Justice G Arul Murugan dismissed the plea and said that it would pass detailed orders later in the day.

It may be noted that another petition was filed previously seeking an income tax probe into discrepancies in Vijay's asset declaration. The court had issued notice and sought the IT department's response on the same.

The fresh plea was filed by MP Venkatesh, a resident of Chennai. In his plea, Venkatesh submitted that in his election affidavit, Vijay had declared Rs 12.6 crore loan to his spouse and Rs 20 crore transfer to a trust, without any clear explanation regarding their nature, source or genuineness.

Venkatesh submitted that the disclosures, when read as a whole, reveal a pattern of financial obfuscation, mis-characterisation, and suppression of material particulars, thereby defeating the statutory requirement of full, true, and meaningful disclosure under Form 26.

The petitioner further submitted that such incomplete and misleading disclosures amount to non-disclosure in law, violate Section 33A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, attract penal consequences under Section 125A, and directly infringe the voter's fundamental right to make an informed decision.

Case Title: MP Venkatesh v. Director General of Income Tax (Investigation) and others

Case No: WP 16109 of 2026