'Cash-for-jobs a master plan of scientific corruption'

THE Madras High Court on Monday said the fabrication of marks of meritorious candidates in the 'cash-for-jobs' scam was a 'well-executed master plan that enabled scientific corruption'.

- R SIVAKUMAR @ Chennai

A bench of Justices R Subramanian and G Arul Murugan reserved orders on appeals filed in the alleged corruption in the appointment of junior engineers (JEs) in the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) during V Senthil Balaji's tenure as transport minister in the AIADMK government in 2015.

"We are seeing an attempt is made to either delay the proceedings or to hijack this case from this bench," the judges said.

The court made the remarks while hearing the writ appeals filed by A Nambi Senthil Balaji Venkatesh and others, whose marks were allegedly "lowered" to favour less meritorious candidates, challenging the order of a single judge.