Chennai: The Madras High Court today ordered that the tax money collected for an illegal building at Vadapalani all these years should be given as compensation to family members of victims who lost their lives in a fire mishap in the apartment in 2017.
The court also expressed its disappointment over the report prepared on the incident. “The report has been submitted even without knowing who is the reporting officer,” the court observed.
The next hearing has been postponed to 24 January and the court has exempted Commissioner and other officials from appearing. Four members of a family, including two children, died of asphyxiation after a fire broke out at the four-storey apartment in May 2017.