NEW DELHI: Karti Chidambaram, son of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, has asked the Delhi High Court to cancel proceedings against him by the Enforcement Directorate, or ED, in the INX Media money laundering case. His lawyer Salman Khurshid told NDTV that the petition was filed because they anticipated that the ED could arrest him once he was released on bail by the CBI.
Mr Chidambaram, 46, had asked the Supreme Court to intervene but was today told to approach the high court instead.
Justice S Ravindra Bhat of the Delhi High Court will hear the petition tomorrow.
The 46-year-old businessman has been in custody of CBI investigators since his arrest on 28 February last year and will be produced before a Special CBI Judge tomorrow. His bail application is also expected to be heard by the judge tomorrow.
"What we did in the Supreme Court was to anticipate sequential arrests, that when you get bail in one matter, then you are picked up in another matter... We wanted that to be clear... because the law doesn't allow that to be done," he explains.
Karti Chidambaram was arrested on his return from the UK at the Chennai airport. He has repeatedly said he was being framed by the agencies at the instance of the government.
Mr Chidambaram, 46, had asked the Supreme Court to intervene but was today told to approach the high court instead.
Justice S Ravindra Bhat of the Delhi High Court will hear the petition tomorrow.
The 46-year-old businessman has been in custody of CBI investigators since his arrest on 28 February last year and will be produced before a Special CBI Judge tomorrow. His bail application is also expected to be heard by the judge tomorrow.
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"What we did in the Supreme Court was to anticipate sequential arrests, that when you get bail in one matter, then you are picked up in another matter... We wanted that to be clear... because the law doesn't allow that to be done," he explains.
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Karti Chidambaram was arrested on his return from the UK at the Chennai airport. He has repeatedly said he was being framed by the agencies at the instance of the government.
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