The Supreme Court on Friday decided to examine a request by former Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji to ease some of the bail conditions imposed on him in the money laundering case linked to the alleged cash-for-jobs scam.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi issued notice to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and asked the agency to respond within 10 days. The matter will be taken up again on December 1.

Senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Narendra Hooda, appearing for Balaji, told the court that he is seeking modification of two specific conditions in the existing bail order. The first requires him to mark attendance every Monday and Friday at the ED’s Chennai office between 11 am and 12 noon. The second mandates that he appear before investigating officers in three schedul

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