New Delhi (PTI) A demand was made by two members in the Lok Sabha on Friday for sacking of the Union Minister who allegedly tried to "pressurise" a judge of the Madras High Court to sanction anticipatory bail to the accused in a marksheet forgery case.

Raising the matter, M Thambidurai (AIADMK) said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should identify the minister and remove him from the Council of Ministers immediately.

A similar demand was made by B Mahtab (BJD) who described the matter as "grave". "A slur on the minister is a slur on the government," he said.

Justice R Reghupathi had said in an open court that a Union Minister had telephoned him and tried to influence him to grant anticipatory bail to a father-son duo booked by CBI for allegedly using the services of a Pondicherry University official and a middleman to inflate marks.

The issue had triggered noisy scenes in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday with Opposition members demanding that the minister should be "dumped" immediately.

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