The Madras High Court has held that no beneficial reason may be served in accomplishing a trial in a 2014 activity racket case in opposition to Electricity Minister V. Senthilbalaji because all thirteen sufferers had compromised the issue and desired the case to be quashed.
The case pertained to alleged irregularities in recruitment whilst Mr Senthilbalaji changed into Transport Minister withinside the erstwhile AIADMK authorities headed through Jayalalithaa.
Justice M. Nirmal Kumar quashed the case in opposition to the Minister, his brother Ashok Kumar, non-public assistant Shanmugam and Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) worker Rajkumar after the sufferers seemed earlier than court and stated the problem was settled.
In a judgment introduced on July 30, however, to be had in public area simplest now, the choose stated the Minister and his brother have been now no longer immediately worried in series of ₹40 lakh, which were paid only to different accused. However, in 2019, the sufferers reportedly were given returned their money.
Though simplest Shanmugam had filed a petition to quash the court cases on the idea of the compromise reached with the sufferers, the choose quashed the complete court cases pending earlier than a unique courtroom docket for attempting instances booked in opposition to the beyond and present legislators.
K. Arulmani, a technical team of workers in MTC, had lodged the criticism in 2018 pointing out that he amassed ₹40 lakh from the 13 people and paid them to the accused when they promised to the steady driving force and conductor jobs whilst Mr Balaji changed into Transport Minister in 2014.
Claiming that they neither were given jobs nor the cash returned, he claimed to have taken 4 years to lodge the criticism due to the fact the accused changed into a Minister. On the alternative hand, the quash petitioner claimed that the criticism changed lodged after the Minister left AIADMK and joined DMK. It changed into additionally claimed that the petitioner changed into going for walks a manpower corporation and that the cash changed into collected towards session expenses for securing jobs if the applicants fulfil required eligibility. However, they have been now no longer eligible and as a result, they couldn't get jobs.
Though the money was repaid in 2019 and all thirteen sufferers have been now no longer interested in prosecuting the case, the police went in advance and filed a price sheet because of political reasons, he alleged.