Arrested Minister V. Senthilbalaji’s wife Megala has filed a further affidavit within the Madras High Court accusing Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Tamil Nadu unit president Okay. Annamalai of getting nursed a grudge against her husband due to perceiving the latter to be a direct risk within the political area.
In the affidavit filed in help of a habeas corpus petition questioning her husband’s arrest by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on June 14, the petitioner stated, Mr. Annamalai had been talking, since August 2022 itself, about the opportunity of such an motion by the central regulation enforcement businesses.
She additionally contended an order handed by the Principal Sessions Judge on June 14 remanding her husband in judicial custody until June 28 was unlawful as a result of the decide had reportedly not thought of correctly a petition filed by him to reject the remand request for not having knowledgeable the grounds of arrest.
The petitioner claimed the petition to reject the remand plea was made when the periods decide visited the Government Multi Super Speciality Hospital at Omandurar Government Estate, Chennai to remand the hospitalised Minister. Then, the decide needed his lawyer to argue the matter in open courtroom on the identical day.
However, after returning to the courtroom, she held that the query of rejecting the remand wouldn’t come up since she had already remanded the Minister in judicial custody. “In view of this illegality, the next detention of the detenu (in judicial custody) is against the law,” Ms. Megala claimed and pleaded to set her husband at liberty.