Tamil Nadu minister for electrical energy, excise and prohibition Senthil Balaji was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a authorities hospital within the wee hours of Wednesday after he was questioned by Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers in reference to a cash laundering case. Excessive drama was witnessed outdoors the federal government hospital the place Balaji was introduced for medical examination. The minister was seen grimacing in ache whereas mendacity in a automobile as his supporters gathered there to protest in opposition to the ED motion.
Whereas there have been speculations that the minister had been taken into custody by the financial intelligence company, there was no official affirmation and DMK advocates who visited the hospital additionally stated there was no readability on this.
“I noticed him (Senthil Balaji) when he was shifted to ICU. Medical doctors are evaluating his well being situation. It’s a process when an individual says he has been assaulted the physician wants to notice down all of the accidents and can know after seeing the report. Formally we’ve got not been knowledgeable (by ED) that he has been arrested,” DMK MP and lawyer NR Elango stated.
State Minister P Ok Sekar Babu claimed there have been ‘signs’ Balaji has been ‘tortured.’
DMK minister Udhayanidhi Stalin stated, “Senthil Balaji is present process therapy.”
“We are going to cope with it legally. We’re not afraid of the threatening politics of the BJP-led central authorities,” he added.
Balaji was delivered to the Omandurar authorities hospital for medical examination after the central investigative company took him into custody for questioning within the cash laundering case. DMK leaders alleged that Balaji did not appear acutely aware when he was taken to the hospital by ED.
A staff of Fast Motion Power (RAF) was deployed on the hospital as his supporters gathered there to protest the ED’s motion.
The ED officers on Tuesday raided the minister’s official residence in Chennai and his workplace within the state secretariat apart from the premises in his native Karur and Erode. The case in opposition to Balaji pertains to allegations when he was the transport minister throughout the AIADMK-led authorities from 2011 to 2015 earlier than he switched to the DMK.