Justice T Sivagnanam and Justice G Chokalingam, disposing a PIL by M Chinnasamy a former minister, now in DMK, said the Principal Secretary of Commercial Tax and Registration should take steps within two months to shift the office to the new building.
The petitioner submitted that the sub-registrar office was now functioning in a private rented building without basic facilities.
The new building had been constructed spending crores of rupees and infrastructure was lying idle. The government officials were not showing administrative will to open the building and use it, Chinnasamy submitted.