Deepa, Deepak declared heirs of Jaya’s property
Giving a quietus to the long pending issue as to who will inherit the vast properties worth about several hundreds crores of rupees of former chief minister late J. Jayalalithaa, the Madras high court has declared J. Deepa and J. Deepak, her niece and nephew, as her class–II legal heirs and said they are entitled to inherit her estate.
A division bench comprising Justices N. Kirubakaran and Abdul Quddhose made the declaration while allowing the petition filed by J. Deepak, which sought to grant letters of administration in respect of the properties and credits of deceased J. Jayalalithaa.
The bench held that the petitioner J. Deepak and the respondent J. Deepa are the class II legal heirs of J. Jayalalithaa, being the son and daughter of her brother late J. Jayakumar. The petitioner and the respondent are entitled to the letters of administration in respect of the estate held individually by Jayalalithaa, as
mentioned in the affidavit of valuation filed by the petitioner.
The petitioner and the respondent shall allot a few properties, according to their discretion and create a registered public trust in the name of their late aunt J. Jayalalithaa for the purpose of doing public and social service as per their affidavits filed before this court within eight weeks, the bench added and posted the matter after eight weeks for reporting compliance with regard to creation of trust.
The bench also upheld an order of the single judge rejecting the caveat filed by impleading petitioners’ namely, AIADMK party cadres K. Pugazhenthi and P. Janakiraman, opposing the grant of Letters of Administration to J. Deepak and J. Deepa.