The Tamil Nadu police on Thursday informed the Madras High Court of its decision to conduct a comprehensive investigation into three First Information Reports (FIRs) registered against Electricity Minister V. Senthilbalaji on the charge of having involved in a job-for-cash scam when he was the Transport Minister in Jayalalithaa’s Cabinet in 2014.
Justice G.K. Ilanthiraiyan was told that the Supreme Court had on September 8 this year reversed the High Court’s order quashing one of the three cases and observed, “the State ought to have undertaken a comprehensive investigation into the entire scam without allowing the accused to fish out of one case as if it was a private money dispute.”
Therefore, the police would conduct a comprehensive investigation in all three cases, the prosecution told the judge when petitions to quash the two other FIRs were listed before him. Additional Public Prosecutor E. Raj Thilak read out the orders passed by the Supreme Court and said the directions would be followed in letter and spirit.
