Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed in Supreme Court by lawyers of P Chidambaram seeking interim relief against yesterday's order of the Delhi High Court canceling Chidambaram's anticipatory bail plea
MK Stalin, chief of DMK, has come out in strong support of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, who is facing arrest in the INX Media money laundering case.
Former Union Minister P. Chidambaram cannot leave the country. All aiports, immigration desks have been put on high alert. The development came as a Supreme Court bench headed by Justice N. V. Ramana on Wednesday refused to grant interim relief from arrest to the former Finance Minister and referred the matter to Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi for urgent hearing on his anticipatory bail plea in the INX Media case.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress General Secretary for eastern Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday extended her support to former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram saying he is being hunted down "shamefully" for exposing the failures of the current central government.
CBI pastes a notice on the wall outside Mr. Chidambaram’s house, asking him to appear before the probe team within two hours of the receipt of summons.
Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed both anticipatory bail pleas of Former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram.
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Wednesday hit out at Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik, saying his invitation to Rahul Gandhi to visit the state was a "tool of propaganda" and never sincere.
Karti Chidambaram, son of former Union minister P Chidambaram, on Thursday, challenged before the adjudicating authority, PMLA, the Enforcement Directorate's notice to vacate his Jor Bagh residence here, which was earlier attached by the agency in the INX Media corruption case. The father-son duo is accused in the case.
For 10 years during the UPA rule, he said, India was absolutely secure without any threat of war between India and Pakistan or China.
He asserted the Congress manifesto only states that there would be no immunity for armed forces only in cases of "enforced disappearance, sexual violence or torture".
The ruling party has slammed Congress's poll manifesto as "dangerous and unimplementable". It has alleged that the promises made by the Congress on repealing and reviewing certain laws related to national security was akin to an agenda of India's "Balkanisation".
"I hope this time we won't fail...they are making a determined effort to clean the Ganga, which I am quite proud about," Chidambaram said.
The submission was made before Justice Sunil Gaur who was hearing Chidambaram's plea seeking anticipatory bail in the corruption and money laundering cases relating to the INX Media scandal.
Claiming that the Narendra Modi government's efforts during its remaining tenure cannot revive the "perilous condition" of the Indian economy, P. Chidambaram said the Centre might not able to achieve its set fiscal deficit target of 3.3 per cent.
Chidambaram's remarks come in the wake of fresh revelations on the Rafale deal in a media report which claimed that PM Modi's decision to buy 36 aircrafts instead of the 126 asked for by the Air Force pushed the price of each jet up by 41.42 per cent.
Chidambaram was represented in the hearing through advocates Pramod Kumar Dubey and Arshdeep Singh.
The judge granted four weeks interim bail to Nalini and directed her to surrender before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Egmore here and furnish sureties and thereafter approach the jurisdictional court in West Bengal and obtain regular anticipatory bail.
An ED official said that the former leader was summoned last month by the agency for questioning.
In an exclusive interview to ANI, PM Modi said that his government has made all efforts to take action against the top leaders of the Congress party who allegedly have been involved in any wrong doing.
"The Congress is confident of winning the heartland states in the general elections as well, along with allies," Chidambaram told IANS at a news conference in the party's state unit office in Bengaluru.
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