HC dismisses petitions seeking ED cases against former Ministers

The Madras High Court connected Monday (April 20, 2026) dismissed a batch of 9 writ petitions, filed by DMK Rajya Sabha subordinate R. Girirajan, seeking a absorption to the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) to registry wealth laundering cases against AIADMK leaders S.P. Velumani, C. Vijayabaskar, M.R. Vijayabaskar, P. Thangamani, R. Kamaraj, K.P. Anbalagan, K.C. Veeramani and 2 others connected the ground of corruption cases pending against them.

First Division Bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan dismissed the petitions aft ED Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) N. Ramesh questioned their maintainability arsenic good arsenic the locus standi of the MP to record specified petitions erstwhile helium was neither a complainant nor a witnesser successful immoderate of those corruption cases being probed by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption (DVAC).