New Delhi, Oct. 7 -- The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain an application moved by former Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji to clarify that the prosecution against him in the cash-for-jobs scam should not be a bar on his occupying a position of power.The court, while allowing Balaji to withdraw the application, suggested moving the trial against him to an independent, neutral place, preferably Delhi, and sought response of the state in this regard within two weeks. The application filed by Balaji sought expunging of remarks made by the top court's April 28, 2025 while deciding a plea by one of the victims of the scam seeking recall of the bail granted to the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader on September 26, 2024. The victim K Vidhya Kumar alleged that within two days of getting bail, Balaji became a minister in the state Cabinet and this gave rise to a genuine apprehension of witnesses being influenced and trial derailed. After the court took a tough stand and offered Balaji to choose his freedom or the post, that Balaji resigned leading to the April 28 order. Terming the former minister's application as "misconceived", a bench of justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said, "This court took serious exception to your becoming minister two days after you were granted bail on September 26, 2024. The purpose was that till you get a clean acquittal you should not hold any public office." The court clarified, "This court has not prevented you from becoming a Minister. But the day you become a Minister and we find that you are indulging in influencing witnesses, then we will recall the bail order."...