During the hearing, a Supreme Court bench comprising Justices Bela M. Trivedi and Satish Chandra Sharma remarked that Balaji's illness could be cured with medicines also
Justice G Jayachandran reserved order without specifying any date, after hearing elaborate arguments from Senior counsel N.R.Elango, appearing for Balaji and Additional solicitor general A.R.L.Sundaresan, appearing for the ED
Justice G. Jayachandran of the Madras High Court agreed to a plea by the counsel of the minister, N.R. Elango, for an early hearing of the bail petition to be filed in the course of the day.
The Madras High Court was responding while disposing of a bunch of writ petitions challenging the government's decision to let Senthil Balaji continue as minister in the Cabinet
Principal Sessions Judge S Alli, before whom the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had filed charge sheet on August 12 against the minister, took it on file and transferred the matter to the special court dealing with cases related to MPs and MLAs.
The agency also filed a nearly 3,000-page charge sheet against Senthil Balaji last week as a local Chennai court remanded him in judicial custody till August 25
The ED initiated investigation on the basis of three FIRs registered and charge-sheet filed by the Central Crime Branch (CCB), Chennai, in the 'Cash for Jobs Scam arraying V Senthil Balaji as the main accused.
Senthil Balaji was arrested by the ED in June this year in connection to an Enforcement Case Information Register filed against him under the PMLA in 2021
A city court permitted the Enforcement Directorate to take custody of DMK Minister V Senthil Balaji, who was arrested on June 14 in connection with a money laundering case, for five days.
Balaji, who continues to be a minister without portfolio in the Tamil Nadu government even after his arrest on June 14, and his wife assailed a Madras High Court order upholding his arrest by the probe agency in a money laundering case.
