SC issues notice to Enforcement Directorate on P Chidambaram’s bail petition in INX Media case

The Supreme
Court on Wednesday issued notice to Enforcement Directorate (ED) on former
finance minister P Chidambaram’s bail petition.

The bench of
the court headed by Justice R Banumathi asked the probe agency to file a fresh
affidavit. The case will be next heard on November 26.

The ED was
represented by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta who told the court that a response
will be filed by November 25. Chidambaram had approached the top court on
Monday after the Delhi high court denied him bail last week.

In his plea
before a bench led by Chief Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde on Tuesday, senior
lawyer Kapil Sibal had requested the court hear Chidambaram’s plea early seeing
that he has been in jail for 90 days.