The Madras High Court on Wednesday (October 15, 2025) directed former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s niece and legal heir J. Deepa to implead her brother J. Deepak too as one of the respondents to a writ petition filed by her challenging the recovery of income tax and wealth tax dues, to the tune of ₹13.69 crore, by her aunt.

Justice C. Saravanan granted time till November 3, 2025 for the petitioner to implead her brother since Income Tax department senior standing counsel A.P. Srinivas told the court that though both the siblings had been declared as the legal heirs of the former Chief Minister, Mr. Deepak had not challenged the recovery proceedings.

The court was informed that the Tax Recovery Officer had initially passed an order on July 23, 2025 for recovering a much larger

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