The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday conducted raids at the residence and financial office of Tamil Nadu minister Senthil Balaji's personal assistant Shankar in Karur district in connection with its ongoing money laundering investigation.
The Madras High Court on July 14 held legal the arrest of Balaji by the ED, and subsequent judicial custody granted by a lower court on money laundering charges against him linked to the cash-for-jobs scam.
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear on July 21 plea of Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji and his wife challenging the Madras High Court's judgment order which held his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the money laundering case legal.
The Madras High Court on July 14 held legal the ED’s arrest of Balaji and subsequent judicial custody on money laundering charges linked to the cash-for-jobs scam.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday conducted searches at Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister Ponmudi's residences in Chennai and Viluppuram, the officials said.
Tamil Nadu Law Minister Thiru S Regupathy on Thursday wrote to Governor RN Ravi seeking prosecution of former AIADMK ministers while alleging that the latter was shielding the Opposition leaders from corruption charges.
Tamil Nadu Public Works Department (PWD) Minister EV Velu on Wednesday expressed regret over his remarks on the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court and said that he 'used some wrong words due to emotion'.
Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement that a Tamil Studies Chair will be established at the University of Houston, Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma Subramanian on Saturday said that the Tamil Nadu government has also taken steps to establish a Tamil chair at the University and
Tamil Nadu Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ma Subramanian on Friday said that Minister Senthil Balaji was transferred to a private hospital based on his wife's request.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to interfere, as of now, with the Madras High Court order allowing Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji to be moved to a private hospital in Chennai and entertaining a habeas corpus petition filed against his arrest.
The Enforcement Directorate, on Monday, moved to the Supreme Court against an order of the Madras High Court allowing Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji to be moved to a private hospital in Chennai from the government hospital following his arrest by the ED.
Opposition leaders have criticized the ED's highhandedness for questioning Balaji for long hours and then taking him into custody in the wee hours of Wednesday.