Supreme Court tells Karti Chidambaram: Deposit Rupees 10 crore and travel abroad

Mangaloretoday News Network

New Delhi, Jan 30, 2019 : The Supreme Court on Wednesday permitted former finance minister P Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram to travel abroad. Karti is an accused in the Aircel-Maxis case, Hindustan Times reported.

 

At the same time, the court directed Karti to deposit Rs 10 crore with Supreme Court registry as a surety.

On January 16, the Supreme Court refused to give an urgent hearing to Karti Chidambaram who was seeking permission to travel abroad.

“We are not interested. We have better things to do,” Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said during the hearing. “We will see what can be done,” he added.

Karti had asked for an urgent hearing for permission to travel abroad in November 2018 too. “Don’t go... Stay back in India,” Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi had said then.

The CBI and Enforcement Directorate are investigating Karti Chidambaram 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 last year, the Supreme Court 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 in November, the court made it clear that this was not a matter which deserved an out-of-turn hearing.