SC SEEKS ED REPLY ON SENTHIL'S PLEA CHALLENGING HC ORDER ON ARREST

The Supreme Court on Friday sought the response of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on a petition filed by Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji and his wife Megala challenging an order passed by the Madras high court that allowed the federal agency to take Balaji into custody in connection with a cash-for-job scam.

- Abraham Thomas

A bench of justices AS Bopanna and MM Sundresh issued notice on the two petitions challenging a split verdict given by the high court on July 4, following which the matter went to a third judge who ruled on July 14 that ED was entitled to take the minister into custody, and that the period spent by the minister in hospital would not be counted as part of the custody. The third judge also held that the writ petition of hab