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Property Tax Case: High Court Orders Corporation Commissioners to Appear in Person!
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News18•23-09-2026, 15:51
Property Tax Case: High Court Orders Corporation Commissioners to Appear in Person!
- •The High Court has ordered Commissioners of Chennai, Coimbatore, Erode, and other corporations to appear in person due to the non-appearance of corporation lawyers in property tax-related cases.
- •Various cases related to property tax hikes across Tamil Nadu have been pending in the Chennai High Court for a long time.
- •The Chennai High Court had granted several extensions for the corporations to respond in these cases.
- •As no one appeared on behalf of the corporations, the High Court ordered Erode Corporation Commissioner Arpit Jain and Chennai Corporation Commissioner G. S. Sameeran to appear on the 29th, and Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner Katta Ravi Teja on the 30th to provide an explanation.
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The Chennai High Court ordered the commissioners to appear in person because corporation lawyers failed to appear in long-pending property tax-related cases across Tamil Nadu and no one responded on behalf of the corporations despite multiple extensions.
Chennai Corporation Commissioner G. S. Sameeran and Erode Corporation Commissioner Arpit Jain are ordered to appear on the 29th, while Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner Katta Ravi Teja must appear on the 30th.
Various cases related to property tax hikes across Tamil Nadu have been pending in the Chennai High Court for a long time, during which the court granted several extensions for the corporations to respond.
