₹100-crore private schools ‘cheating’ case: B.T. Arasakumar challenges detention under Goondas Act
The wife of B.T. Arasakumar has filed a habeas corpus petition challenging his detention under the Goondas Act. Arasakumar is accused of orchestrating a ₹100-crore scam involving the collection of funds from private schools under the guise of securing government approvals.
Why it matters
The case highlights the intersection of administrative corruption, the use of preventive detention laws, and the legal challenges surrounding such executive actions.
A habeas corpus petition (HCP) has been filed in the Madras High Court challenging the preventive detention of B.T. Arasakumar ( 59), under the Goondas Act on the basis of a complaint accusing him of having collected around ₹100 crore from various private school managements across Tamil Nadu during the previous DMK regime.
A Division Bench of Justices Anita Sumanth and Sunder Mohan on Monday (August 10, 2026) ordered notice, returnable by four weeks, to the Greater Chennai Commissioner of Police on the HCP filed by the detainee’s wife who contended no threat had been caused to public order necessitating his preventive detention.
On June 23, C. Elangovan, secretary of Tamil Nadu Private Schools Federation, had lodged a complaint with the Commissioner of Police levelling serious charges against Arasakumar who was accused of having collected large sums of money by running an unregistered association named ‘Tamil Nadu Private Schools Association’.
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