Chennai, Nov 11:
Former DMK minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi on Wednesday moved the Madras High Court seeking bail in connection with the alleged Rs 400-crore private school recognition bribery scam, a day after a special court rejected his plea.
Senior advocate P. Wilson, representing Anbil Mahesh, made an urgent mention before Justice V. Lakshminarayanan, requesting an expeditious hearing of the criminal appeal. The judge observed that if Registry formalities and numbering procedures were completed during the course of the day, the bail petition would be taken up for hearing on Thursday.
Simultaneously, counsel sought an adjournment of a separate petition filed by the former minister seeking to quash the FIR registered against him by the Central Crime Branch (CCB). Acceding to the request, Justice Lakshminarayanan deferred the hearing on the quash petition to November 30. Anbil Mahesh was arrested on October 26 on charges of facilitating illegal collections from private school managements for government accreditations.