In another meeting chaired by chief minister M K Stalin, the police and home department made a few decisions following the hooch death of 16 people in Villupuram district and six in Chengalpattu. He (Annamalai) is just making these statements for political reasons,” Balaji said. “I don’t think they have the right to say anything. Responding to Annamalai’s call for his sacking, Balaji questioned why BJP’s ally AIADMK’s EPS did not resign after he was named in the Kodanad-heist-cum-murder case and the Thoothukudi firing in which police killed 13 civilians. How many people know this? But, I will cooperate with the investigation.” Some third parties approached the Supreme Court after the Madras high court order. ![]() “Those who went to the Supreme Court are not the same people who had filed the complaint and those who were affected by the case. My name was added during investigations due to political reasons,” Balaji said. ![]() “My name was not there when the complaint was filed and an FIR was registered. The Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside an order by the Madras high court, directing a fresh probe into an alleged cash-for-job scam. Balaji is accused of taking bribes from people seeking jobs in the state transport department. The case against Balaji pertains to allegations when he was the transport minister during the AIADMK-led government from 2011 to 2015 before switching to the DMK. He said that when AIADMK general secretary Edappadi Palaniswami (EPS) was chief minister, there were 20 hooch deaths in 2020 and that his cabinet minister for health C Vijayabhaskar has been named by the CBI in the gutka scam. The minister, however, pointed fingers at the opposition for similar hooch deaths and scams. We will arrest more people related to the deaths,” Balaji said. The minister asserted that steps are being taken to ensure that illicit liquor-related deaths do not occur in future and that he would fully cooperate with the investigation against him. (ANI)īalaji faced a volley of questions from reporters after he emerged from an electricity review meeting on Wednesday in Chennai. The Supreme Court allowed the Enforcement Directorate to continue proceedings against Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji in the alleged cash-for-job scam. ![]() Chennai: V Senthil Balaji, Tamil Nadu minister for electricity, prohibition and excise, is in the eye of a storm with the death toll in twin hooch tragedies rising to 22 and BJP’s state president K Annamalai calling for his removal, a day after the Supreme Court allowed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to continue proceedings against him in the alleged cash-for-job scam.
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