Pon Vasanth
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The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday (October 9, 2025) granted bail to Pon Vasanth, husband of Madurai Mayor Indrani. Justice S. Srimathy granted the bail with conditions.
Pon Vasanth is one of the accused in the property tax ‘scam’ in the Madurai Corporation. The Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the multi-crore scam arrested him in Chennai on August 12.
The prosecution said that the fraud came to light in September 2024 when the then Madurai Corporation Commissioner C. Dinesh Kumar found some irregularities in the records, and lodged a police complaint.
An audit team found that property taxes of 150 buildings had been deliberately reduced without following proper procedures, and their review uncovered irregularities in the records of UTIS, an online property tax management platform. Bribes were accepted to lower taxes, the prosecution said.
Published – October 09, 2025 05:19 pm IST
