The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on June 19 moved the Supreme Court against the transfer of Tamil Nadu Minister V. Senthilbalaji, an accused in a money-laundering case related to a job scam, of “feigning illness immediately upon arrest” and getting himself admitted in a private hospital on the very first day of remand in a bid to render the investigation “otiose and meaningless”.
The apex court listed the case for hearing on June 21.
Appearing before a Vacation Bench led by Justice Surya Kant on Monday, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, for ED, said it wanted Mr. Balaji back in its custody as soon as he was discharged from the private hospital. In the meanwhile, the ED said the time he spends in the private hospital should not be deemed as “effective custody”.
