{"id":315424,"date":"2019-10-03T11:49:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T11:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315424"},"modified":"2019-10-03T11:49:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T11:49:48","slug":"court-extends-p-chidambarams-judicial-custody-till-october-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/court-extends-p-chidambarams-judicial-custody-till-october-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Court extends P Chidambaram\u2019s judicial custody till October 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-315425 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/chidambaram.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/chidambaram.jpg 472w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/chidambaram-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/chidambaram-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/chidambaram-218x150.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/>The judicial custody of former union minister P Chidambaram, who is in prison since September 5 in connection with the INX Media case, was extended till October 17.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chidambaram on Thursday had moved the Apex Court seeking bail in the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The matter was brought before the top court just a few days after the Delhi High Court had dismissed Chidambaram\u2019s bail plea\u00a0owing to the likelihood of his influencing witnesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chidambaram has been accused for allegedly granting Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approval to the INX Media group for\u00a0receiving overseas funds to the tune of over Rs 300 crore in 2007 when he was the finance minister.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The judicial custody of former union minister P Chidambaram, who is in prison since September 5 in connection with the INX Media case, was extended till October 17. Chidambaram on Thursday had moved the Apex Court seeking bail in the case. The matter was brought before the top court just a few days after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[746,1573],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315426,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315424\/revisions\/315426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}