Former AIADMK Minister, K.T. Rajenthra Bhalaji, was released from the Central Prison in Tiruchi on Thursday morning on bail.
Acting on a bail order granted by the Supreme Court , the prison authorities released him from judicial custody. A handful of AIADMK cadres were present when he walked out of the prison.
Sources said that the former Minister later proceeded to Virudhunagar.
Mr. Bhalaji was arrested in Karnataka over a job scam case, and produced before a Judicial Magistrate in Virudhunagar on Thursday last. After a few hours of detention in a Madurai prison, he was transferred to the Central Prison in Tiruchi.