CBI gets 3 more days to quiz Karti
HC restrains ED from arresting Karti
Karti Chidamabaram will face further custodial interrogation by the CBI for three days in connection with the INX Media corruption case with a court here on Friday extending his police custody till March 12 during which he will be confronted with his chartered accountant S. Bhaskararaman.
Special Judge Sunil Rana said the Central Bureau of Investigation has been able to give “sufficient ground and justified reasons” to show that further custody of Karti, who was produced after the expiry of his three-day police custody, was necessary.
The court also kept the bail application of Karti, the son of senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram, for hearing on March 15 after the CBI sought time to file its reply.
Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court granted him relief, restraining the ED from arresting him in a related money laundering case till March 20
The judge allowed the agency to confront him with his chartered accountant Bhaskararaman, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on February 16 and was on Friday sent to judicial custody till March 22 after ED’s counsel Nitesh Rana submitted that the probe was on.
Karti has been in CBI custody since his arrest on February 28.
The investigating agency still has the liberty to take three more days of police custody of Karti under the law which mandates 15 days of police remand.
DELHI HC stopped Karti’s counsel from making any remarks on Indrani Mukerjea, former director of INX Media who is in jail. KARTI said that the CBI was meting out “inhuman treatment” to him which caused his blood pressure to shoot up.