Justice Banumathi said the petition will be listed once the apex court registry gets the Chief Justice’s order in this regard.
Former Union Minister P Chidambaram at Rouse Avenue court complex in New Delhi. (Photo: IANS/File)
Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s plea challenging the trial court order remanding him to four days judicial custody by CBI has not been listed in the Supreme Court today.
Defence counsel and senior advocate Kapil Sibal told a bench headed by Justice R. Banumathi that despite the last Supreme Court order, his client’s petition challenging trial court remand order was not listed for Monday.
Justice Banumathi said the petition will be listed once the apex court registry gets the Chief Justice’s order in this regard. “The registry has some difficulties and they have to take orders from the Chief Justice,” the bench said.
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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said he had no objection to the plea being heard.
The Delhi High Court had on August 20 rejected Chidambaram’s anticipatory bail plea in the INX media case.
On August 21, he moved the Supreme Court and challenged Delhi High Court order but could not get an urgent hearing on the plea.
P Chidambaram was arrested late on Wednesday night after the Delhi High Court on Tuesday rejected his pre-arrest bail and remanded him to the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) till August 26, which ends today.
The INX Media case relates to alleged irregularities in Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance given to the media group for foreign investment to the tune of Rs 305 crore in 2007 when Chidambaram was finance minister.
Chidambaram and his son were named by Peter and Indrani Mukerjea, who owned INX Media at the time and are currently in jail in connection with the murder of Indrani Mukerjea’s daughter Sheena Bora.
The Enforcement Directorate and the CBI are probing how Chidambaram’s son Karti managed to get Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance in 2007 when his father was the Finance minister.
Karti was arrested on February 28, 2018, by the CBI for allegedly accepting money to facilitate the FIPB clearance to INX Media. He was later granted bail.
His chartered accountant, S.Bhaskararaman, was also arrested and released on bail later.
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