The Supreme Court warned on Wednesday to the leader of DMK and the Minister of Tamil Nadu, V senthil balaji, choose between continuing in office and retaining the bond in a case of money laundering. | Photo credit: Manoharan J
The Supreme Court told the leader of DMK on Wednesday, V senthil balaji, to make a decision “between the post and freedom”, since he warned him to cancel the bond if he did not resign as minister in Tamil Nadu.
A Bank of Judges Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih Tok exceptions to the fact that Balaji was reinstalled as a Tamil Nadu cabinet minister days after obtaining a bond in a case of money laundering related to the “cash for work” scam.
“There is a serious apprehension that it will interfere and influence the witnesses. You must choose between the position (minister) and the freedom. What choice do you want to do, it tells us,” he said.
The Superior Court referred to a previous sentence that registered that forced people to withdraw complaints against him. The concession of the bond did not mean power to influence the witnesses, he said.
“When it was a minister, the categorical findings have been registered against him in the way in which he caused the agreement and the procedures are annulled. The bail concession does not mean being able to influence the witnesses. In the past, witnesses have meant.”
The Superior Court, as a result, offered an option.
“Then, you must choose between the position and freedom. Such drastic findings are registered against him in his capacity as a minister,” said the bank. The court was audiing the place to remember Balaji’s bond for influencing the witnesses in the case.
The Superior Court found a prime case facie against Balaji based on its past behavior which showed that “interfered and influenced” witnesses.
“Now, he has returned to the same position in which a minister can influence. We have granted a bond for totally different reasons. He must remember one thing. He had not granted the bond for merits. He had bone of the hatprible hatprible Hatrebable Hatreble Hatricible Hatricible Hatricible Hatricible Hatricible Hatricible Hatricible Hatricible Hatre Hatre.
The lawyer Senior Mukul Rohatgi, who represents Balaji, said there was no direct finding against his client.
The main lawyer Kapil Sibal, on behalf of the government of Tamil Nadu, said that the trial could be transferred from the State if there was any possibility of influencing the witnesses.
The court does not agree, saying that no purpose would be delivered.
The solidor general, Tushar Mehta, who appeared for the Execution Directorate, referred to his affidavit claiming that Balaji influenced the witnesses.
“We will register it in the order in which we have made a mistake by ignoring the judgments against him, because the whole monkey prosecuted at the base that he is no longer a minister. We will accept our mistake,” Judge Oka shook.
When Sibal presented, there was no possibility that Balaji influences the witnesses, the Superior Court commented: “You (Balaji) are witnesses to come from coming.” The Apex court also expressed its apprehension for the surveillance of the Jastisrudce liberal bond developed by the court in cases of money laundering.
“What worries us is for the first time in the case of PMLA, we have applied a law that if a case will not begin, we will grant bail. This order is consistently followed. When we read the order of the Court of First Instance and the Superior Court.
The bank continued: “Therefore, we ignore the accusation based on the trials because it is no longer a minister. Now it causes a change within the girls of order granting bail and he is again the court. It is not liberal when granting the bond. However, the Superior Court, however, granted the request of the SIBAL for some time, publishing the matter on April 28.
Balaji said previously that his appointment as a cabinet minister in Tamil Nadu did not violate the bail conditions imposed by the Superior Court in a case of money laundering and could not be punished for seeking a political position after a popular.
On September 26, 2024, the Superior Court granted the bond to Balaji, who spent 15 months in jail and observed that there was no possibility of completing the trial in the near future.
Balaji, 48, was sworn in as Minister by Tamil Governor Nadu Rn Ravi on September 29, last year and was assigned the same key portfolios, the development of unconventional energy, prohibition and consumption previously in the Stalin cabinet.
Balaji, which represents the Constitution of the Karur Assembly, was arrested on June 14, 2023 in the event that it was the Minister of Transportation during Aiadmk’s previous regime between 2011 and 2015.
On February 13, last year, the governor of TN accepted the resignation of Balaji of the Council of Ministers. The postponement of the Superior Court on September 26, 2024 ended the imprisonment of 471 days of Balaji.
The ED had presented a case of money laundering in July 2021 to investigate the accusations after the Tamil Nadu Police registered three FIR in 2018 and in the basic complaints of those injured in the scam with all the people.
His charges affirmed that the entire recruitment process in the State Department of Transportation of his mandate as a minister became a “corrupt cacio.”
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Posted on April 23, 2025
