Chennai, May 15 -- The Madras high court directed the Tamil Nadu government to submit records by Friday on the plea of Youtuber "Savukku" A Shankar seeking a CBI probe into an alleged misappropriation of funds in a government scheme to turn manual scavengers into entrepreneurs.

A bench of justices GR Swaminathan and V Lakshminarayanan passed the order calling for the government's records.

"Before we consider the contentions of the petitioner on merits, we propose to go through the relevant files ourselves," the bench said in its order. "We therefore suo-motu implead," the court said calling on Tamil Nadu's secretaries of the Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department, MSME Department, Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewe...