Madras High Court restrains Chennai police from probing TVK MLA bribery case
The Madras High Court has issued an interim stay on the investigation into a bribery case involving TVK MLAs. The court halted police proceedings until August 27, 2026, following petitions from accused individuals seeking a CBI probe.
Why it matters
This legal intervention impacts the political landscape in Tamil Nadu by stalling a high-profile corruption investigation involving elected officials.
The Madras High Court on Tuesday restrained the Triplicane police in Chennai from investigating the TVK MLAs’ attempted bribery case booked on the basis of Uthangarai MLA N. Elaiyaraja’s complaint of having been offered a bribe of ₹35 crore. It granted an interim stay of all further proceedings till August 27, 2026.
First Division Bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan passed the interim orders following individual writ petitions filed by two accused S. Sethuraj of Bengaluru and S. Karthik of Tiruppur for transferring the investigation to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
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