AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

NT Bureau
Chennai, May 23:

        The State government will initiate legal action against former Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa for reportedly constructing unauthorised building at her Kodanadu estate near Kothagiri in Nilgiris district.

        According to a press release here yesterday, the Nilgiris District Collector had been directed to look into a complaint given by the Kothagiri Panchayat Union President K M Raju to Chief Minister

        M Karunanidhi on 19 May that buildings were being constructed in the estate without approval of the Hill Areas Conservation Authority and it had affected the environment.

        The release said when the Collector sent a team of officials, yesterday which included Kodanadu Panchayat President, Village Administrative Officer, Division Officer, Coonoor and Block development Officers to conduct field inspection in the estate, they were denied permission to enter the premises by security men, citing the presence of a VVIP (Jayalalithaa).

        It may be noted that Jayalalithaa and her close aide Sasikala have been camping at the Kodanadu estate for more than a month now.

        The estate manager told the officials that the details they wanted is with an architect in Chennai and he promised to furnish it soon. 'When the officials asked why they were not allowed in for inspection, the manager told them that a VVIP was staying inside and that they could not be permitted to enter due to security reasons,' the release added.

        The Kothagiri Panchayat President, in a complaint letter to the Chief Minister, had stated that Jayalalithaa had cheated the Tamilnadu Government of lakhs of rupees in the registration fee when she bought the 825-acre estate in 1995. Since then Jayalalithaa and her close

        aides Sasikala, V N Sudhakaran and Ilavarasi had been undertaking the expansion of their 90-room bungalow in the estate without the Government's approval.

        Raju had also complained that a meeting of the gram sabha on 1 May was to be called off as Jayalalithaa's security men denied permission to government officials, the Panchayat President and members and the public to use the only road leading to the Annanagar Village, where the meeting was convened.