New Delhi(Wishav Warta): Delhi high court (HC) granted Karti Chidambaram relief until March 20 in the event of an arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) ) in the INX Media money laundering case.
Karti, who was arrested last week by the CBI, is in its custody as per an order of a trial court. He fears that when CBI custody ends on March 9, the ED will swoop in to arrest him. As per today’s Delhi HC order, if a trial court grants bail to Karti in the CBI case, the ED cannot arrest him until the next date of hearing, which is March 20.
Chidambaram, a son of senior Congress leader and former finance minister P. Chidambaram, had moved the Delhi HC yesterday pleading that the ED’s summons be quashed. He made the plea after the Supreme Court allowed him to withdraw his petition there challenging the issuance of summons by the ED in the Delhi high court instead.
Karti is being investigated for allegedly receiving money to facilitate Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance for INX Media in 2007 when his father was the finance minister in the UPA government.