Stay back in India, Supreme Court tells Karti Chidambaram; declines urgent hearing to travel abroad

The Supreme Court on Wednesday turned down the Congress leader’s request for an urgent hearing to let him travel abroad this weekend.

Updated on: Nov 1, 2018, 13:07:07 IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Bhadra Sinha

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Karti Chidambaram will have to rework his foreign travel plans. The Supreme Court on Wednesday turned down the Congress leader’s request for an urgent hearing to let him travel abroad this weekend. “Don’t go... Stay back in India,” Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi remarked when Karti Chidambaram’s lawyer made the request.

Karti Chidambaram (Sushil Kumar/HT PHOTO)

Karti, son of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, is being investigated by the CBI and Enforcement Directorate in the Aircel-Maxis and INX media case relating to the clearance by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board to receive foreign funds to the tune of Rs 305 crore when his father was the finance minister.

In July this year, the Supreme Court had allowed him to travel to the United Kingdom, France and the United States of America for about a week.

When he returned to the Supreme Court for permission to travel abroad again on Thursday, the court made it clear that this was not a matter which deserved an out-of-turn hearing.

“Karti Chidambaram (going abroad) is not a matter to be taken up tomorrow,” Chief Justice Gogoi stressed.

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Bhadra Sinha
Bhadra is a legal correspondent and reports Supreme Court proceedings, besides writing on legal issues. A law graduate, Bhadra has extensively covered trial of high-profile criminal cases. She has had a short stint as a crime reporter too.Read More

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