NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday slammed Tamil Nadu govt for clubbing all cash-for-job scam cases, which now has over 2,000 accused, including those who gave bribe to then minister V Senthil Balaji for jobs in state transport corporation, and said this appeared to be a tactic to make the trial never-ending.“The state should be keen on prosecuting the former minister and his henchmen for the cash-for-job scam relating to employment for different categories of posts for a bribe. Now you have clubbed all cases together to include those accused of giving bribes, the poor parents who wanted a job for their children. This indicates that the state does not want the trial to ever come to an end against the minister. It is a fraud on the system,” said a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi.Appearing for petitioner Y Balaji, senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan told the bench that the state had helped the ex-minister in every step. “Two days after he was granted bail by the SC, he was reinstated as a minister in the present govt. He stepped down only after the SC intervention. The case was quashed after the accused and a complainant entered a compromise. It was revived after the SC intervened and said if such match fixing is allowed, then the umpire will lose his wicket,” he said.He said there are as many as six chargesheet filed by the police and now the prosecution wants the cases to be clubbed. As the state is colluding with the accused ex-minister, it would be better if the SC orders a CBI probe and an independent prosecution of the cases relating to thousands of jobs being given against payment of bribes, the counsel said.When it was opposed by senior advocates A M Singhvi and Amit Anand Tiwari, appearing for Tamil Nadu, the SC asked for details of the brokers and middlemen who worked for the then minister during the cash-for-job scam, those who acted as a conduit, the officers who acted on behalf of the then minister, and the members of the selection committee who allowed the backdoor entries primed by bribe. It posted further hearing Wednesday.Balaji was transport minister between 2011-2016 and during that period, in connivance with his brother and personal assistant, collected large amounts by promising jobs to several persons in various positions – engineers, drivers and conductors – in the transport department.Three FIRs were filed. In the first FIR, six chargesheets have been filed naming more than 2,000 accused and citing 550 witnesses. In the chargesheet on the second FIR, 14 accused and 24 witnesses have been named. The chargesheet on the third FIR, 24 accused and 50 witnesses have been named by prosecution.