Karti Chidambaram leaves Patiala House court after he was remanded to five-day CBI custody in the INX Media case, in New Delhi on Thursday. Photo: PTI
New Delhi: Karti Chidambaram, son of former finance minister P. Chidambaram, moved the Supreme Court on Monday seeking quashing of summons issued against him by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in relation to the INX Media case.
A bench headed by chief justice Dipak Misra said the matter would be taken up for hearing on Tuesday.
Karti is currently under the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is questioning him after a special court extended his custody till Monday. He will be produced before the special court next on 6 March at noon.
Just hours after he was arrested by the CBI at Chennai airport in connection with alleged bribery at INX media on 28 February, he was sent to custody by a special court.
The investigative agency had sought to remand him to 15 days’ custody for further questioning, which would include confronting him with evidence.
He is accused of having received Rs10 lakh in kickbacks in 2007 to clear foreign investment worth Rs305 crore for INX Media, which was owned by Peter and Indrani Mukherjea, at a time when his father P. Chidambaram was finance minister in the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government
