Supreme Court questions Rajinikanth's wife

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned Latha Rajinikanth, wife of actor Rajnikanth as to why she was not honouring the undertaking given to the court to pay the dues of Rs 6.20 crore to Ad Bureau, which had given Rs. 10 crores loan for the production of the film Kochadaiyan directed by her daughter Soundarya Rajnikanth. 

A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Ms. R. Banumathi took strong exception to Latha’s attempt to wriggle out of her liability to pay Rs .6.2 crore to an advertising agency on the pretext that her previous lawyer had wrongly given the undertaking. 

Justice Gogoi observed: “We don’t like people playing around with court orders. We think you should face the trial. If you're innocent, you will be acquitted. Face the trial.”  In February, Latha’s lawyer gave an undertaking in the court that if her firm does not pay in three months, she will be personally liable to pay Rs 6.2 crore. However, on Tuesday, the lawyer for her firm Ilam Bharathi Subbiah and Balaji Srinivasan offered to give a cheque of only Rs 10 lakh.