INX Media case: Delhi HC reserves order on Karti Chidambaram's bail plea
India | March 16, 2018 17:18 ISTThe 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.
The CBI opposed the bail plea saying that tampering of evidence and influencing witnesses in the case was a possibility.
The Supreme Court today extended till March 26 the interim relief granted by the Delhi High Court to Karti Chidambaram from arrest in the INX Media money laundering case lodged by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
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.
While rejecting Karti's plea for separate cell and bathroom, Special Judge Sunil Rana said he cannot be treated differently from other accused persons.
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'.
A special CBI court in Delhi extending Karti Chidambaram's CBI custody till March 12 during which he will be confronted with his chartered accountant S Bhaskararaman.
A special Delhi CBI court today granted the CBI three more days to interrogate Karti Chidamabaram, son of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, who has been in the CBI custody since February 28 in connection with the INX Media corruption case.
The court said that if the trial court decides to grant bail to Karti in the CBI case, then it may impose conditions such as the accused shall appear before the ED as and when called for the investigation and cooperate in the probe.
Karti Chidambaram, who is presently in CBI custody in the INX Media case, moved the high court in pursuance of the Supreme Court direction passed earlier in the day.
The investigative agency is leaving no stone unturned in exposing the entire conspiracy and even hinted at "new revealations" in the case.
The Enforcement Directorate is believed to have found details of the transfer, which was made by Karti from his account in the Chennai branch of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). The alleged transfer was made between 2006 to 2009.
The CBI said "new revelations" have come up and his custodial interrogation was necessary to confront him with the "new facts".
Karti Chidambaram had sought quashing of the ED's summons against him in the INX Media corruption case.
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