The Madras High Court on Monday directed the police to arrest a man — who claimed to be former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa’s son — for not only cheating the court but also for forging documents.
J Krishnamoorthy, the man in question, had even furnished a copy of a ‘will’ signed by his ‘parents’ Jayalalithaa and Telugu actor Shoban Babu.
Justice R Mahadevan lambasted Krishnamoorthy citing the police report that said he was the son of one Vasanthamani, and not Jayalalithaa as was falsely claimed by him. The report filed by the Inspector of Police said that old stamp papers were purchased from a stamp vendor and the documents concerned were forged. “He (Krishnamoorthy) has not only cheated the court but also prepared forged documents,” said the judge, directing the police to arrest him. He then posted the case for further hearing on April 10.
On March 17, the court had reprimanded the man and questioned the genuineness of the documents he had submitted. “I can send this man to jail straightaway. I will ask police officers to take him to jail now itself,” Justice R Mahadevan had said, directing him to appear before the Commissioner of Police the next day and hand over original documents for verification.
Krishnamoorthy had moved the court claiming he was born to Jayalalithaa and Shoban Babu. He had submitted some documents, including a ‘deed of adoption’, and sought the court’s help to declare him as her son, entitling him to her properties, including the Poes Garden residence. He had also sought a direction to the Director General of Police to provide him security, as he feared threats from the family of Jayalalithaa’s aide and AIADMK General Secretary VK Sasikala.
Stating that even if these (documents) were placed before a lower kindergarten student, he would say they are fabricated, the judge said that the photo attached by the petitioner was available in the public domain and asked if he thought anyone could just walk into court and initiate PIL proceedings. He had then directed Additional Public Prosecutor Emilias to ascertain the genuineness of the documents.
Krishnamoorthy had claimed that he was born in 1985 and that a year later, he was given for adoption to the family of Erode-based Vasanthamani, who reportedly worked in former Chief Minister MG Ramachandran’s household in the late 1980s. He said the ‘adoption deed’ had photos and signatures of Jayalalithaa, Shoban Babu and Vasanthamani on the rear and the signature of MG Ramachandran as ‘witnesses’ to the adoption. To this, the judge had noted that the late Chief Minister MG Ramachandran was not able to move even his hand around the time the document was allegedly prepared.
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J Krishnamoorthy had moved the court claiming he was born to Jayalalithaa and Telugu actor Shoban Babu. He had submitted some documents, including a ‘deed of adoption’, and sought the court’s help to declare him as her son, entitling him to her properties, including the Poes Garden residence. But the judge said that even if these documents were placed before a lower kindergarten student, he would say they are fabricated.
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