The Delhi High Court on Wednesday permitted Congress leader P. Chidambaram to place additional documents on record in his pending anticipatory bail plea in the INX Media case lodged by the CBI.
The former Finance Minister has sought to place on record the printouts of several news articles published on February 3, which state that the Law Ministry has told the Centre that the CBI can be granted sanction to prosecute Mr. Chidambaram in the case. The court had reserved its order on Mr. Chidambaram’s anticipatory bail plea on January 25.
On July 25, last year the court granted interim protection to Mr. Chidambaram from arrest and directed the ED not to take any coercive step till August 1.
The order has been extended from time to time. It had also directed Mr. Chidambaram to cooperate with the investigating agencies.