New Delhi, In a setback to former Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with a Madras High Court order directing a CBI probe into an alleged ₹397-crore scam in the procurement of transformers during his tenure as the state's electricity minister between 2021 and 2023.
A bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta refused to entertain the plea challenging the high court's direction for a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities.
Declining to entertain the special leave petition against the high court order, the court ordered that it was not inclined to entertain the appeal and said investigation in the matter should proceed independently without being influenced by any observations made by the high court.
The high court had ordered a CBI inquiry into the alleged irregularities surrounding the procurement of 45,000 distribution transformers by the Tamil Nadu government, following allegations that the state exchequer suffered a loss of ₹397 crore between 2021 and 2023.
