At a time several media trails are going on with regard to the fate of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s assets, a non-governmental organisation in Hyderabad approached the High Court seeking her assets in the Hyderabad to be taken over by the state government.

The public interest litigation petition filed by Gareeb Guide states that as per the Succession Act, these assets should be declared as public properties. As Jayalalithaa never married, her parents are no more and her lone brother also died long back, it says there are no legal hairs.

The NGO represented by its president G. Bhargavi approached the High Court stating that if a person had not nominated a heir to own the property, in accordance with the provisions of Hindu Succession Act 1956, such property should devolve on the government. It urged the court to direct the Telangana government to take appropriate action in this regard.

Gareeb Gude recalled that the government should take over the property subject to all the obligations and liabilities to which a heir would have been liable. It further informed the court that Jayalalithaa in an affidavit filed along with her nomination papers for the May’ 2016 Assembly elections declared movable and immovable properties worth over Rs 113.73 crore.

Among those properties, she had declared of having 4 acres of agriculture land in Medchal village of Malkajgiri district and a commercial complex in Srinagar Colony in Hyderabad.