Bengaluru, April 16 -- The Madras high court on Wednesday issued notices to the Income Tax department and the Centre over a petition alleging irregularities in assets declared and financial disclosures by Tamil Nadu deputy chief minister Udhayanidhi Stalin in his affidavit for the 2026 assembly elections. A bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G Arul Murugan directed the Director General of Income Tax (Investigation) and the Union Ministry of Corporate Affairs to file their replies to the plea by April 20 this year. The Court issued the notices on a writ petition filed by R Kumaravel, a voter from the Chepauk-Triplicane Assembly constituency in Chennai. Kumaravel's counsel that a comparison of affidavits from 2021 and 2026 revealed "serious discrepancies." He alleged that several previously declared assets "disappeared from the affidavit this year." Kumaravel, in his petition, also alleged that the deputy chief minister had a total income of about Rs.2.02 crore in the five years prior to 2020, which rose to over Rs.10.98 crore in subsequent years....