The Supreme Court on July 4 refused to entertain a plea by the Enforcement Directorate to immediately transfer and decide the question of custody of Tamil Nadu Minister V. Senthilbalaji in a money-laundering case linked to the cash-for-jobs scam following a split verdict by the Madras High Court.
Instead, a Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Dipankar Datta requested the Madras High Court Chief Justice to expeditiously constitute a larger Bench to hear the case.
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