Karti Chidambaram gets court relief from arrest till May 30 in ED case on ‘visa scam’
The Rouse Avenue Court granted the interim protection from arrest till May 30 in the alleged money laundering case registered by the ED in connection with the alleged visa scam.
Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Thursday granted interim protection to Congress MP Karti Chidambaram from arrest till May 30 in an alleged money laundering case registered in connection with an alleged Chinese visa scam.
Congress leader Karti Chidambaram outside the CBI headquarters in New Delhi on Thursday. (Sanchit Khanna/ HT Photo)
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A day ago, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed the money laundering case against the Lok Sabha MP, his close aide S Bhaskararaman, and others in the matter related to facilitation of project visas for Chinese nationals for a power project of the Vedanta group in Punjab in return for bribes, at a time when his father was the union home minister.
A special court had ordered him to join the CBI investigation within 16 hours of his arrival from the UK and Europe, where he had gone with the permission of the Supreme Court and the special court itself.
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