{"id":315891,"date":"2019-10-22T04:22:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T04:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315891"},"modified":"2019-10-22T04:22:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T04:22:02","slug":"inx-media-case-sc-verdict-on-p-chidambarams-bail-plea-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/inx-media-case-sc-verdict-on-p-chidambarams-bail-plea-today\/","title":{"rendered":"INX Media case: SC verdict on P Chidambaram\u2019s bail plea\u00a0today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315425 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/chidambaram.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"324\" 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: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court will on Tuesday pronounced a verdict on the bail plea of former finance minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media corruption case.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court had reserved the order on October 18.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chidambaram had filed a plea challenging the Delhi High Court verdict dismissing his bail plea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed chargheet against Chidambaram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The charge sheet named 13 other accused, including the Congress leader\u2019s son Karti Chidambaram, INX\u2009Media co-founders Peter Mukerjea and Indrani Mukerjea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The ED on October 16, arrested the former finance minister after questioning him in Tihar jail where he was lodged since September 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The ED has filed a criminal case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to probe alleged irregularities in the grant of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approval to the INX Media group.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court will on Tuesday pronounced a verdict on the bail plea of former finance minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media corruption case.\u00a0 The court had reserved the order on October 18. Chidambaram had filed a plea challenging the Delhi High Court verdict dismissing his bail plea. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,36,2009,2014],"tags":[746,1573,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315891"}],"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=315891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315892,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315891\/revisions\/315892"}],"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=315891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}