The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has denied the claim of arrested Minister V. Senthilbalaji’s wife Megala that her husband was being prosecuted in the money laundering case out of political vengeance.
It has asserted before the Madras High Court that there was absolutely no malice in the case. Filing a counter affidavit to an additional affidavit filed by her in support of a habeas corpus petition (HCP) to declare her husband’s arrest as illegal and set him at liberty, the ED said the State police itself had filed a charge-sheet in a cash for jobs case against the Minister before a special court for cases against MPs and MLAs.
The agency said the Supreme Court itself had permitted it to continue the investigation. Therefore, “it will not lie in the mouth of the petitioner to allege that the alleged detenu is being prosecuted out of political vengeance,” it said.
