NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, JUNE 15
DMK leader and Power Minister V Senthil Balaji was shifted to Kauvery Hospital on Thursday following an order of the Madras High Court. He was hospitalised on Wednesday after he complained of chest pains while being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a money laundering case.
The Tamil Nadu minister was arrested by the central probe agency after being questioned in the money laundering case on Wednesday.
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Earlier, a bench of Justices J Nisha Banu and D Bharatha Chakravarthy at the Madras High Court ordered the shifting of the arrested DMK leader to Kauvery Hospital at his own cost.
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The directive was issued reportedly on humanitarian grounds. Balaji broke down while being taken into custody by ED officials for questioning in the money laundering case in the early hours of Wednesday. After raiding his premises on Tuesday, the central agency grilled the DMK leader. The minister underwent a coronary angiogram on Wednesday at the Omandurar government hospital in Chennai.
