Madras High Court refuses to quash chargesheet against T.N. Health Minister Ma. Subramanian

The Madras High Court on Friday (March 28, 2025) refused to quash a chargesheet filed by the Organised Crime Unit of Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) in 2019 against Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma. Subramanian and his wife.

The Madras High Court on Friday (March 28, 2025) refused to quash a chargesheet filed by the Organised Crime Unit of Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) in 2019 against Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma. Subramanian and his wife in a case registered against them for having allegedly grabbed a government property in Guindy, Chennai, through false claims and fabricated documents.

Justice P. Velmurugan dismissed a quash petition filed jointly by the Minister and his wife Kalpana Subramanian in 2020. The chargesheet had been filed before a special court for MP/MLA cases in Chennai. The judge directed the special court to frame charges, commence trial, and complete it as expeditiously as possible.

The case against them had been booked on the basis of a complaint lodged by S. Parthiban, who had contested as an Independent candidate against Mr. Subramanian in the 2016 Assembly elections. He, however, managed to secure only 87 votes. According to the complainant, the petitioners had illegally grabbed two plots belonging to Small Industries Development Corporation (SIDCO) in Guindy in 1996 and constructed a three-storey residential building there.

Claiming that those two plots were originally allotted by SIDCO to S.K. Kannan (since dead), the complainant alleged that fabricated documents, including a ration card and legal heir certificate, had been created to make it appear as though Ms. Kalpana was the daughter of the original allottee. 

Relying upon her passport and other documents, the complainant claimed the name of Ms. Kalpana’s father was Sarangapani and not Kannan.

After finding prima facie substance in the complaint, the police had booked quash petitioners under Sections 420 (cheating), 464 (making a false document), 465 (forgery), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.