The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to grant an urgent hearing to Karti Chidambaram's plea seeking permission to go abroad. The top court said it has a lot of cases and Chidambaram Jr's travel is not a matter that needs to be given preference.

Karti, the son of former Union Minister P Chidambaram plans to travel aboard from November 3 and had requested the court for an urgent hearing. Refusing to hear his plea urgently, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said “Karti Chidambaram going abroad is not a matter that needs to be taken up tomorrow.”

"All judges have more cases than they can handle. Work preceded by twenty hours of homework", CJI Gogoi said during mentioning of the matter. 

Meanwhile, Karti and his father were granted further relief today as a Delhi court extended till November 26 the protection from arrest in the Aircel-Maxis case filed by the CBI and ED.

Additional Solicitor General Tusshar Mehta, appearing for the CBI and ED, told CBI Special Judge O P Saini, "We have to meet a deadline and he (P Chidambaram) is not cooperating." He also told the court that the CBI will file its reply to the anticipatory bail application of P Chidambaram on Thursday.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had on Wednesday told the court here that custodial interrogation of former Union minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram was necessary in the Aircel-Maxis money laundering case to unravel the truth as he was "evasive and non-cooperative" in the probe.

The senior Congress leader's role has come under the scanner of investigating agencies in the Rs 3,500-crore Aircel-Maxis deal and the INX Media case involving Rs 305 crore.

The ED is also probing a separate money-laundering case in the Aircel-Maxis matter, in which Chidambaram and Karti have been questioned by the agency.

(With PTI inputs)