INX Media case: Delhi HC directs ED not to arrest Karti Chidambaram till March 20

Karti Chidambaram has been given interim protection from “any coercive action taken against him” by the ED till March 20.

india Updated: Mar 09, 2018 14:29 IST

Indo Asian News Service, New Delhi

Karti Chidambaram, son of former finance minister P Chidambaram, arrives at Patiala House courts in connection with the INX Media case, in New Delhi on March 9.(PTI Photo)

The Delhi high court on Friday gave Congress leader P Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram interim protection from being arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in the INX Media money laundering case.

The interim relief to Karti from “any coercive action taken against him” by the ED till March 20 came a day after the Supreme Court transferred to the Delhi high court his plea seeking quashing of summons issued by probe agency.

Karti has been in CBI custody since his February 28 arrest.

The CBI, which is separately probing the case, has alleged that Karti got kickbacks in 2007, when his father was the finance minister, to clear foreign investment worth Rs 305 crore for INX Media -- owned by Peter and Indrani Mukherjea.

The Mukherjeas are in jail in a murder case.

The CBI said it has a recorded statement of Indrani accusing Karti of seeking bribe to get the FIPB clearance.