New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear former finance minister P Chidambaram's pleas challenging non-bailable warrant issued against him as well as the subsequent trial court orders remanding him to the CBI custody in the case.
Chidambaram remains in the CBI custody till September 5, in the INX Media corruption case, as the Supreme Court ordered "status quo" despite the probe agency insisting that it does not require his further custodial interrogation.
The apex court will also pronounce its order on Chidambaram's separate plea in which he has challenged the August 20 verdict of the Delhi High Court denying him anticipatory bail in the money laundering case.
The apex court also asked Chidambaram's counsel not to press for the interim bail plea, filed before the trial court on Monday and scheduled to be heard today, till Thursday.
At the outset, Mehta moved an application seeking recall of the apex court's Monday order and said that based on that order, Chidambaram's counsel had moved the interim bail plea before the trial court.
Mehta said Chidambaram's counsel had on Monday pressed before the trial court that interim bail plea be decided during the day itself and the trial judge issued notice to the CBI asking it to file response within 24 hours.
"The matter is listed for hearing today before the trial court at 3.30 pm. Less than 24 hour notice was given to the CBI to respond to the interim bail plea which was filed 13 days after his arrest. This should not be the procedure," he told the bench.
The top court had on Monday given partial relief to Chidambaram saying he would not be sent to Tihar Jail after the former finance minister offered to be under house arrest instead of being sent to prison.
The CBI had lodged an FIR on May 15, 2017, alleging irregularities in Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance granted to INX Media group for receiving overseas funds of Rs 305 crore in 2007 during Chidambaram's tenure as union finance minister.
Thereafter the ED had lodged a separate money laundering case in 2017.
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