The Madras High Court Bench here on Monday adjourned to Wednesday the hearing on an anticipatory bail application filed by former Agriculture Minister ‘Agri’ S.S. Krishnamoorthy’s personal assistant Poovaiah who apprehended arrest in connection with the suicide of an Assistant Executive Engineer of Agricultural Engineering Department in Tirunelveli on February 20.
Justice K. Kalyanasundaram adjourned the hearing following a request made by government counsel to obtain instructions from the Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department sleuths who had arrested the former Minister and the department’s Chief Engineer, M. Senthil, on April 4 on charges of abetting the engineer to commit suicide by demanding a bribe of Rs.12.25 lakh from him.