Aircel-Maxis: Chidambaram, Son Get Interim Protection Till 8 Oct
Chidambaram’s role has come under the scanner in the Rs 3,500-crore Aircel-Maxis deal and the INX Media case.
A Delhi court has extended the interim protection from arrest granted to former Union minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti in Aircel-Maxis cases till 8 October. The cases were filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
Special CBI Judge O P Saini put up the matter for 8 October after the counsel appearing for the agencies told the court that the main counsel was unwell and requested time.
Chidambaram and his son Karti were named in the chargesheet filed by the CBI in the case on 19 July.
The agency filed a supplementary chargesheet before the special judge, who had fixed it for consideration on 31 July.
The CBI is probing how Chidambaram, who was the Union finance minister in 2006, granted a Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approval to a foreign firm, when only the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) was empowered to do it.
In its chargesheet filed earlier in the case against former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanithi Maran and others, the agency had alleged that Chidambaram had granted an FIPB approval in March, 2006 to Mauritius-based Global Communication Services Holdings Ltd, a subsidiary of Maxis.
The Maran brothers and the other accused named in the CBI chargesheet were discharged by the special court, which had said the agency had failed to produce any material against them to proceed with the trial.
Both Chidambaram and Karti have denied the allegations levelled against them by the CBI and the ED.
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