C. Nagappan, J. And M. Sathyanarayanan, J.

The appellant is the writ petitioner and he made a challenge to the Final Opportunity Notice dated 25.04.2012 issued by the respondent calling upon the petitioner to offer his explanation as to the possession of assets and pecuniary resources, which has been held as disproportionate to his known sources of income. The writ petition, after contest, was dismissed on 26.06.2012 and aggrieved by the same, the present writ appeal is filed by the writ petitioner.

2. Facts leading to the filing of this writ appeal, as culled out from the affidavit filed in support of the main writ petition as well as the counter-affidavit filed by the respondent, are as follows:-

a) In the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition, it has been averred that the writ petitioner/appellant is the Deputy General Secretary of the DMK Party and a sitting Member of Legislative Assembly elected from the Katpadi Assembly Constituency and he was the Minister for Public Works Department and Law Department during the period 2006-2011. The writ petitioner/appellant further averred that ever since the present ruling party came into power, the party leaders and impo