Plea in Madras High Court seeks CBI probe into alleged disproportionate belongings of Ramanathapuram MP Navaskani

A public curiosity litigation (PIL) petition has been filed within the Madras High Court looking for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into allegations of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) Member of Parliament Ok. Navaskani, representing the Ramanathapuram Lok Sabha constituency, having amassed wealth disproportionate to his identified sources of revenue.

First Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan on Thursday (September 11, 2025) ordered discover to the CBI looking for its reply to the PIL plea. Though the petition was initially filed earlier than the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court, it was transferred to the principal seat in Chennai because the case had been filed towards a sitting MP.

Ok. Venkatachalapathy, an advocate practising on the Tirunelveli district court docket, had filed the PIL plea by means of his counsel on document VR. Shanmuganathan. Senior counsel V. Raghavachari appeared earlier than the primary Bench and impressed upon the necessity to order discover to the CBI because it had didn’t register a First Information Report (FIR) towards the MP regardless of a selected criticism lodged on September 19, 2024.

In his affidavit, the litigant stated Mr. Navaskani had served as Ramanathapuram MP between 2019 and 2024 and obtained elected from the identical constituency as soon as once more final 12 months. Comparing the affidavits associated to his belongings, filed by the MP whereas contesting the elections in 2019 and 2024, the petitioner stated, there had been an “extraordinary and steep hike” within the quantum of his belongings.

“Shri Navaskani has created these appreciable belongings by misusing his official place. Given minimal respectable revenue, he’s illegally enriching himself by pilfering public cash assigned to the Members of Parliament to develop their constituencies. It is nothing however defrauding the nation’s exchequer. The belongings he acquired are disproportionate to all his identified sources of revenue,” the petitioner alleged.

He additionally acknowledged although it had almost been a 12 months since he lodged a criticism with the CBI on the matter, the investigating company didn’t come ahead to conduct any form of inquiry towards the MP. Hence, he sought a course to the CBI Director in addition to the Regional Deputy Director in Chennai to conduct a radical inquiry concerning the alleged disproportionate belongings held by the MP.