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Updated On: 15 June, 2023 08:04 AM IST | Chennai | Agencies
Amid ‘drama’, ED arrests Tamil Nadu electricity minister in alleged cash-for-job scam case
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TN Electricity Minister V Senthil Balaji while being taken to a hospital, in Chennai, on Tuesday night. Pic/PTI
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday arrested Tamil Nadu Electricity, Prohibition and Excise Minister V Senthil Balaji under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), official sources said, making him the first member in the M K Stalin-led Cabinet to face such an action from a central probe agency.
Balaji was arrested after a long session of questioning, they said, even as the 47-year-old minister was admitted to a city government hospital after he complained of uneasiness. He underwent a coronary angiogram and was advised bypass surgery at the “earliest”. A local court later sent him to judicial custody till June 28.
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