NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, MAR 2
The Central Crime Branch (CCB) has booked a criminal case against five persons, including two staffers of late educationist Jeppiar, for allegedly forging land records of property in Chennai belonging to Jeppiar’s wife Remibai Jeppiar.
According to police, Remibai, wife of late Jeppiar, founder of Jeppiar Group of Educational Institution, owned property in Royapettah area of Chennai. Five persons have forged a document that the housing property had been pledged for Rs 5 crore by late Jeppiar. All five have been booked.
First Information Report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UV86_3uCcZk_f6grMmDfLi8yz-1HCaBH/view?usp=drive_web
In the beginning, late Jeppiar, his wife (79), and daughters were residing on Ganapathy Street in Royapettah.
Jeppiar had bought this property admeasuring 3600 sqft in his wife Remiabai’s name in 1985.
It was detected from the footage of the CCTV that three persons had locked the gates of said property on February 16, 2019.
When N Kannan, legal advisor of Remibai, confronted the trio they informed him that the property was owned by a private financier, Muralidharan, a resident of CIT Nagar in Nandanam. They locked the property on his orders.
Later, Remibai had inquired about this issue with S Jose, and S Justin, both brothers who had worked as the personal secretaries to Jeppiar, they explained to her that Jeppiar had pledged that property to raise Rs 5 crore for an exigency.
A shaken old lady Remibai Jeppiar felt something fishy. With the help of her counsel Kannan, she complained with Semmancherry Police Station on August 6, 2020.
Nilankarai Assistant Commissioner Vishveswaraiya, who was holding the charge of Duraippakkam Assistant Commissioner under whose jurisdiction Semmancherry Police Station came, initiated the probe.
Semmancherry police inspector Vijaykumar had registered only a CSR and not taken any action. Aggrieved by the inaction of the police, Reiabai’s counsel Kannan moved the Alandur court on September 30, 2020.
After studying the case, the judicial magistrate had ordered Semmancherry PI to probe the case and file an FIR. Vijayakumar defied the magistrate’s order and transferred the case to the CCB.
Remibai has submitted all relevant documents to the CCB in support of her claims. On scrutiny of the documents, it was detected that S Jose and his elder brother S Justin who were personal secretaries of Jeppiar, financier A. Muralidharan (59), and his assistant Francis alias Binu Francis (52), and one person had planned to prepare forged documents to change the ownership of the property.
On receiving the complaint, the CCB registered a first information report (FIR) against five persons under sections – 408 (Criminal breach of trust by clerk or servant), 465 (Punishment for forgery), 468 (Forgery for purpose of cheating), and 120B(Criminal Conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.
Jose (44) and Justin (45) hail from Kadiapattinam at Nagercoil in Kanyakumari District were searching for a job and met Jeppiar in 2004.
On hearing their family situation Jeppiar gave them education in his college and also jobs.
Through subsidiary companies, lands were purchased from lawful owners when Jeppiar was alive. The records of those lands were kept in the functional office of the said companies at Sathyabama Deemed University which was also the office of Jeppiar. After the demise of Jeppiar in 2016, the original title deed relating to one of the properties located on Ganapathy street, Royapettah went missing. The complainant alleged that a fake power of attorney was created, favouring Jose to handle the property and the property was pledged with Muralidharan, and a Rs. 5 crore loan was obtained without the knowledge of Remibai.
