Senior Congress leader moved to court again to sought anticipatory bail in INX Media case. Just hours after getting an interim relief in Aircel-Maxis case, P. Chidambaram moved filed a plea in Delhi High Court. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has directed P Chidambaram to appear before it on May 31 for questioning in INX Media case. The probe agency had earlier arrested his son, Karti Chidambaram for alleged irregularities in the INX Media case.
Earlier, Karti Chidambaram, son of former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, was arrested by the CBI at Chennai Airport in connection with its probe in the INX media case.
The 46-year-old Karti was placed under arrest by a CBI team on his return from London.
The CBI had registered an FIR on May 15 last year against alleged irregularities in the FIPB clearance to INX Media for receiving overseas funds to the tune of Rs 305 crore in 2007 when Chidambaram was the Union finance minister. It is alleged that Karti had received funds to the tune of Rs 10 lakh in the case, they said.
The CBI alleged Karti also received money from INX media to scuttle a tax probe. The firm was owned at the time by Peter and Indrani Mukerjea, who are currently in jail on charges of murdering Indrani's daughter Sheena Bora.The Enforcement Directorate has also registered a money laundering case.
The CBI and the ED had carried out a series of raids on the houses and offices owned by the Chidambarams. Karti Chidambaram was questioned several times by the ED.
A lookout notice, which prevents a passenger from travelling abroad, was issued against him as the agencies suspected that he would try to close foreign accounts where he had parked the money from the kickbacks. In November, the Supreme Court allowed Karti Chidambaram to go to the UK for his daughter's admission in the Cambridge University.
