CBI gets 3 more days

plea, saying the investigation was at a “crucial stage” and the CBI needs two weeks to file a detailed reply to his bail application.

Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for Karti Chidambaram, said that the CBI just wants to keep him in custody by hook or crook.

“I have cooperated. I am not obliged to answer what you ( CBI) want to hear. My duty is only to make myself available for questioning,” Mr Singhvi said on behalf of 46- year- old Karti Chidambaram.

In the Supreme Court, a threejudge bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra refused to pass any interim order of protection againt arrest or anticipatory bail on Karti Chidambaram’s petition challenging ED’s summons in a money laundering case.

The apex court sought a response from the ED on Karti Chidambaram’s petition but clarified that issuance of notice in the fresh writ petition will have no bearing on any other proceeding against the petitioner.

Karti Chidambaram was arrested by the CBI on February 28 at Chennai airport on his return from Britain, in connection with the FIR lodged on May 15 last year. The FIR alleged irregularities in Foreign Investment Promotion Board ( FIPB) clearance to INX Media for receiving overseas funds worth ` 305 crore in 2007 when his father was Union finance minister.