Setback for 2 Tamil Nadu ministers

The Madras High Court has set aside the discharge of two Tamil Nadu ministers in disproportionate assets cases and directed a lower court to frame charges against them. The lower court has also been asked to conduct trial on a daily basis. The cases against Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu and Revenue Minister KKSSR Ramachandran, both senior DMK leaders, were filed in 2011 and 2012 - during the AIADMK regime. They were discharged by a special court after the DMK came to power. Justice Anand Venkatesh took up the case on his own and set aside the discharge orders. The two ministers will now have to face trial for allegedly accumulating assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.