INX Media case: Delhi High Court extends protection from arrest to P Chidambaram till September 28
India | August 01, 2018 14:19 ISTThe ED has been directed to not take any coercive steps against Chidambaram until the next hearing in the case.
The ED has been directed to not take any coercive steps against Chidambaram until the next hearing in the case.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted interim protection to former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media money laundering case
Chidambaram has filed his anticipatory bail plea through advocates Pramod Kumar Dubey and Arshdeep Singh and requested the court to grant him protection from arrest from ED in the case.
The interim protection which was earlier granted till Tuesday has now been extended by a month by Justice AK Pathak.
The Delhi High Court had in May granted bail to Karti in the case with a bond of Rs 10 lakh.
The agency has alleged irregularities in the clearance of foreign investment in INX media, a venture promoted by former media baron Peter Mukerjea and his wife Indrani, both probed by the CBI in connection with the murder of their daughter Sheena Bora, sources said.
He was called yesterday for the questioning in the case but he sought another date to comply with the Central Bureau of Investigation notice, they said.
The Delhi High Court today granted former Union minister P Chidambaram interim protection from arrest till July 3 in the Central Bureau of Investigation's INX Media corruption case.
ED had sought an authoritative pronouncement from SC in view of several conflicting orders of different high courts on the probe agency's power of arrest under section 19 of PMLA.
However, the court asked Karti to submit his passport and prohibited him from travelling overseas.
The matter is being heard by a bench of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud.
The CBI opposed the bail plea saying that tampering of evidence and influencing witnesses in the case was a possibility.
The CBI opposed the bail plea saying that tampering of evidence and influencing witnesses in the case was a possibility.
A bench of justices S Muralidhar and IS Mehta changed the date of hearing from March 20 to 22 after Karti's counsel said that senior advocate Kapil Sibal will not be available on March 20.
Special judge Sunil Rana granted bail to Bhaskararaman, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on February 16 from a five-star hotel in the heart of the national capital.
Justice S.P. Garg also sought a status report from the probe agency and listed the matter for March 16 for further hearing.
Karti, the arrested son of former Union minister P Chidambaram, had moved the high court seeking bail, hours after a court here sent him to judicial custody till March 24.
Earlier today, a special CBI court sent Karti Chidambaram to judicial custody till March 24 in INX Media corruption case.
Special judge Sunil Rana pronounced the order after the CBI said that he was not required for custodial interrogation.
Karti, who is son of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, requested the court two give him special cell and security in the custody as his father was a home minister 'whose tenure saw several terror and organised crime cases'.
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