Minister Senthil Balaji files fresh bail plea
Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) last year in a money laundering case, on Wednesday moved a city court seeking bail.
Principal Sessions Judge S Alli, before whom the bail petition filed by Balaji came up for hearing, posted to January 8, further hearing of the case, after ED’s counsel N Ramesh sought time to file a counter affidavit.
In his petition, the DMK leader submitted that the Enforcement Directorate was not able to identify and cannot identify the ill-gotten sources of income as the same remain unavailable or the petitioner has no other source of income than the disclosed one.
Therefore the agency, without any valid document could not have proceeded the alleged investigation under PMLA. But to make out a case under PMLA, the ED has observed it has reason to believe the said sources of income were purported to have acquired out of the appointments scam.
He said his every transaction was a reasoned source of legitimate income and the same has been declared in the financial years and therefore the same cannot be treated as ill-gotten money or that the source was illegitimate.