High drama unfolded outside a government hospital in Chennai as Enforcement Directorate (ED) took Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji into custody in the wee hours of Wednesday. The minister broke down as the offices picked him up.
Balaji has been admitted to the intensive care unit after he complained of chest pain.
The ED sleuths on Tuesday raided the premises linked to Balaji and questioned him in a case that pertains to allegations when he was the transport minister during the AIADMK-led government from 2011 to 2015 before he switched to the DMK.
Balaji’s ministerial colleage P K Sekar Babu claimed there were ‘symptoms’ Balaji has been ‘tortured.’ The , who broke down as officers picked him up, will be questioned in connection to an alleged money laundering case.
The action came months after the Supreme Court allowed a police and ED probe into an alleged cash-for-jobs scam against him.
Chief minister M K Stalin was reportedly heading to the hospital to meet Balaji, who is a confidant of the chief minister.
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