Jailed Tamil Nadu Minister, His Wife Approach Supreme Court Over Arrest Order
NDTV
V Senthil Balaji, in his petition, said, "The very arrest and the remand order were both illegal and contrary to law. As such the impugned judgements upholding the same are liable to set aside."
Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji and his wife Megala have filed two separate petitions in the Supreme Court challenging the July 14 order of the Madras High Court by which it upheld his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case.
Besides upholding the arrest of the minister, the high court had also held as valid his subsequent remand in judicial custody by a sessions court in the money laundering case arising out of the alleged cash-for-jobs scam in the state's transport department when he was the transport minister.
He continues to be a minister without portfolio in the Tamil Nadu cabinet.
