chennai three parcels of land together measuring 50 acres in the tiruttani area were illegally registered for an eyepopping 561 lakh crore in 2019 indias annual defence budget is 385 lakh croreassuming the value of the real estate is so much it would have entailed payment of at least 62000 crore towards stamp fee and registration charges alone however since the registration was done in three transactions by the then tiruttani subregistrar m selvakumaran for a paltry settlement fee of 29000 each he was placed under suspension in 2019 itselfgopalakrishnan the then district registrar of chengalpet was directed to conduct a detailed probe and submit a report however the investigation was stalled due to coronavirus pandemic lockdown in 2020 and 2021now the directorate of vigilance and anticorruption has registered a case against academician td naidu his son tataji naidu and subregistrar selvakumaran the fir states that naidu had paid rs 29000 as stamp and registration fees for each transaction treating it as settlementinvestigators said the suspects registered three documents at the tiruttani subregistrar office in tiruvallur district first transferring a 243 lakhcrore property measuring 2157 acres at thiruvalangadu and 12 cents of property in tiruttani t d naidu representing dd educational and health trust registered the settlement deed in his son tataji naidus name and the latter represented dd medical and educational trustlikewise two more settlement deeds of properties valued 72900 crore and 24 lakh crore were also registered by the subregistrar of tiruttani selvakumaran on november 29 2019during audit registration department officials noticed that instead of collecting 11 tax 7 stamp fee and 4 registration fee for the multilakhcrore transaction the subregistrar had collected a meagre sum towards stamp and registration charges also settlement deed can be registered only between family members however in this case td naidu transferred the properties registered in two separate trust names to his sons name which is illegal they saidthe fir said preliminary inquiries revealed that the property belonged to one kamalammal who had died on february 15 2012 the registering official should have obtained her death certificate and legal heirship certificate to ascertain as to how did td naidu inherit the propertywhen toi tried to reach t d naidu for his comments he was not reachable