The son of former Union Minster P Chidambaram, Karti Chidambaram on Tuesday moved to the Delhi High Court to seek an interim relief from the ED in the INX Media case.
His move came after he approached the Supreme Court to challenge the summons and all the proceedings that have been began against him by the ED and terming it “unreasonable, without jurisdiction, without authority of law, in colorable exercise of power and vitiated by malafided”. The Supreme Court bench headed by the Chief Justice Dipak Mishra had directed K Chidambaram to reach out the High Court and then allowed him to withdraw his interim plea which was pending in the Supreme Court.
However, on March 6, the apex court did not give interim protection to the son of the former finance minister’s son.
The bench has requested the acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court to look into Karti’s matter to an appropriate bench to be taken up for hearing on Friday.
The Supreme Court on February 23 refused to keep a stay on the summons issued by the ED against Karti. Karti is in the custody of CBI now.
CBI arrested Karti Chidambaram on February 28 in Chennai at the airport after he returned from abroad. ED then had registered a case against him and other in May 2017. It did register an ECIR, against the accused named in the CBI complaint.
The complaint included INX Media and its directors Indrani Mukerjea, Peter. An FIR was filed on May 15 last year, had alleged irregularities in the Foreign Investment overseas funds in the year 2007 when Chidambaram was serving as the Union Finance Minister.
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