Madras High Court revives hearing of cases against ECR bungalows of Vijay, Kamal Haasan, Udhayanidhi Stalin
The Hindu
Madras High Court revives hearings on unauthorized ECR bungalows owned by Vijay, Kamal Haasan, and Udhayanidhi Stalin.
After a gap of six years, the Madras High Court has now revived the hearing of a huge batch of cases related to alleged unauthorised construction of bungalows, resorts, guest houses and farm houses along the high tide line on the East Coast Road (ECR) in Chennai.
A Division Bench of Justices Anita Sumanth and Mummineni Sudheer Kumar took note that the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) had issued notices in 2018 to 798 properties that had been reportedly constructed in violation of the rules between Neelangarai and Uthandi.
The notices were issued after the High Court had pulled up the enforcement authorities for turning a blind eye to the constructions put up within 200 metres and between 200-500 metres from the high tide line in violation of the Coastal Regulatory Zone (CRZ) notifications.
Among the noticees were industrialists, educationists, doctors, businessmen, film actors and politicians including Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, Rajya Sabha member Kamal Haasan and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president C. Joseph Vijay.
The judges also found that 440 out of the 798 property owners had filed either statutory appeals or revisions as provided under the Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act of 1971 but only 84 of those appeals had been disposed as on date and the rest were still pending.
The Bench was further told that an officer who was holding the post of Additional Secretary (Technical) in the Housing and Urban Development department had heard all those appeals/revisions in 2024 but he retired from service in 2025 without passing any orders.
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