MHC reserves final judgment in a batch of cases against Senthilbalaji

ChENNAI:

The Chief Justice of the Madras High Court (MHC) on Friday reserved the final order in a batch of cases against the jailed Minister Sentilbalaji to continue in the Council of Ministers without portfolio. The petitioner’s counsel and the Advocate General (AG) R Shunmugasundaram appeared before the first division bench of the MHC comprising Chief Justice S V Gangapurwala and Justice P D Audikesavalu and filed the written submission.

Marking the submission, the Chief Justice posted the matter for pronouncing the order without mentioning any date.J Jayavardhan, son of AIADMK leader and former minister D Jayakumar and another petitioner S Ramachandran filed a quo warranto petition against the continuation of Senthilbalaji in the Cabinet as Minister without portfolio. Likewise, another petitioner ML Ravi filed a petition to quash the government order, which allows Senthilbalaji to continue as Minister without a portfolio in the cabinet. However, the AG said that the Gover-