India, Feb. 20 -- The Madras high court on Friday directed the Tamil Nadu Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) to "immediately register a criminal case" against Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) minister KN Nehru in an alleged Rs.630 crore cash-for-jobs case.

A bench of Chief Justice MM Shrivastava and Justice G Arul Murugan cited the Enforcement Directorate (ED)'s material and added that it disclosed the commission of a cognisable offence and left no room for delay. It rejected the state's stand that the DVAC could wait for the outcome of a detailed inquiry before registering a First Information Report (FIR).

"When corruption is stated to have happened involving several hundred crores of rupees, we find that the material i...