Chennai, May 23 -- After the Supreme Court stayed the investigation against TASMAC, a state-owned organisation that oversees the selling of liquor in Tamil Nadu, AIADMK leader Kovai Sathyan said on Thursday that the interim stay is "not a clean chit by SC" to DMK.

"This is an interim stay by the SC, there is nothing big to cheer about, it is not a judgement, it is just an observation. This interim stay can be vacated at any point of time. Supreme Court has not given a clean chit to DMK in this liquor scam of TASMAC. Nothing big to cheer about," Sathyan told ANI in Chennai.

Earlier today, the Supreme Court stayed the ongoing investigation undertaken by the ED (Directorate of Enforcement) against TASMAC. The bench led by Chief Justice of ...