Senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for Chidambaram, told the top court he should be granted bail as he is in custody for over three months.
Puri moved the bail plea through advocate Vijay Agarwal on Saturday, saying he was not required for further investigation and no purpose will be served by keeping him in custody.
After hearing the counsel for Chinmayanand and the complainant, Justice Rahul Chaturvedi reserved his order on the bail plea of the former union minister. Chinmayanand was arrested on September 21. Police had on August 27 booked him under sections 364 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code
The court also refused to extend the protection from arrest given to him by the Supreme Court.
The ED, in its affidavit filed in response to 74-year-old Chidambaram's bail petition, said the contention of the senior Congress leader that no offence is made out against him is "untenable in law" and his plea is liable to be rejected
Nirav Modi moved the bail plea in a London court against his continued detention and has asked for house arrest.
A bench of Justice Rahul Chaturvedi slated November 8 for hearing Chinmayanand bail plea after it came up for hearing before it.
On October 18, the court had reserved its order on former minister's plea challenging the Delhi High Court order dismissing his bail plea.
The bail plea was heard at Thamarassery Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, near Kozhikode.
Senior advocates Kapil Sibal, Dayan Krishnan, Arshdeep Khurana and Salman Khurshid are to plead the case in court on behalf of Chidambaram.
Special Judge Anuradha Shukla Bharadwaj reserved the order after hearing arguments in the matter.
A court in Mumbai on Tuesday deferred - for the fourth time - its order on the anticipatory bail plea filed by Kerala CPI-M leader Kodiyeri Balakrishnan's son Binoy Kodiyeri in a rape case against him and posted the case for Wednesday.
Akash Vijayvargiya, son of BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, has been in judicial custody in Indore jail since Wednesday evening for thrashing a civic official with a cricket bat.
During the hearing, the lawyer appearing for Kumar told the court that every rule has been violated by CBI in this case against him and the "irony" is that the person who followed the rule is in jail.
Kumar had claimed that his arrest in the present case was motivated to stall the investigation in the case against Qureshi and that there was no direct allegation against him.
Dismissing the bail plea, the court said the "arrogance" and "high-headedness" of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader's son can be clearly made out from the contents of the first information report.
Panchkula Sessions Court rejects bail plea of Honeypreet, a close aide of Dera Saccha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim. She had been arrested for allegedly inciting violence in Panchkula following the arrest of Gurmeet Ram Rahim on August 25 last year
Salman’s bodyguard Shera brought homemade food and clothes for him. However, as per rules of the jail, the actor was not allowed to consume outside food.
The development means that the actor will have to spend at least one more night in Jodhpur Central Jail as Qaidi no. 106.
Meanwhile, four others actors – Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bendre, Tabu and Neelam – who were co-accused in the case were acquitted by the trial court.
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