Bengaluru, Feb. 21 -- The Madras High Court on Friday directed the Tamil Nadu Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption (DVAC) to "immediately register a criminal case" against DMK minister KN Nehru in an alleged cash-for-jobs scam pegged at over Rs.630 crore. A division bench of Chief Justice MM Shrivastava and justice G Arul Murugan said the material shared by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) disclosed the commission of a cognisable offence and left no room for delay. The court rejected the state's contention 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 is sufficient enough disclosing the commission of a cognisable offence for the purposes of registering a case," the high court said. It noted that ED had shared "voluminous details" under Section 66(2) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act on October 27, 2025, and said the State should have acted on that information without hesitation. The court said that even a preliminary inquiry under the BNSS must conclude within 14 days but the Tamil Nadu government had failed to meet the deadline....