SC to hear plea against HC order allowing Senthil Balaji to undergo bypass surgery at private hospital

The high court, which was hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by Balaji’s wife, gave the interim order.

The high court had said Balaji would continue to remain in judicial custody and allowed the probe agency to have its own team of doctors to examine the minister. The Tamil Nadu Electricity and Prohibition and Excise minister was arrested by the ED under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in a cash for jobs scam against him when he was the transport minister in the earlier AIADMK cabinet led by late J Jayalalithaa.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that the Madras High Court, in its order passed on June 15, allowed the arrested Tamil Nadu Minister Senthil Balaji to get shifted to a private hospital from a government multi-speciality hospital where he is in judicial custody following his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate.