INX Media case: Karti Chidambaram to appear before CBI today

Congress leader Karti Chidambaram, the son of former Union Minister P Chidambaram, will appear before the CBI today following directions to do so by the Supreme Court. 

Karti Chidambaram is wanted in a corruption case relating to FIPB clearance to INX media for receiving overseas funds to the tune of Rs 305 crore. INX had approval from the FIPB board for bringing in only Rs 4.62 crore.

On Tuesday the Madras High court refrained from granting any relief to Chidambaram for quashing of the FIR filed by the CBI and the subsequent summons issued by it in the INX Media



case.

Chidambaram will be accompanied by a lawyer at the CBI headquarter but not while he is being questioned. The lawyer will sit in the adjoining room.

This is as per the Supreme Court ruling of August 18 directing Chidambaram to not only appear before the federal agency but had earlier that week quashed a Madras High Court stay on a look out circular.

The high court had stayed the LoC issued by the CBI following Chidambarams's contention that the LoC had been issued even before the date  given for appearance in the CBI's summons.