Chidambaram Case: Supreme Court Denies Interim Bail Plea After CBI Arrest

New Delhi, August 26, 2019:

In a major setback for former Union finance minister P Chidambaram, the Supreme Court has said it cannot convert their petition against rejection of anticipatory bail by the Delhi High Court into a petition for regular bail and refused to "entertain" the plea against the CBI.

The top court said Chidambaram may move regular bail before the special CBI court that sent him to CBI custory for four days on Thursday.

Justice R Banumathi observed that the plea against anticipatory bail has become 'infructuous' and Chidambaram’s lawyers – Kapil Sibal and AM Singhvi – had not yet filed a third petition against the CBI remand.

Meanwhile, Chidambaram’s arrest has been widely condemned by Congress leaders across the country, who have accosted the BJP of hatching a ‘conspiracy’.

In Assam, for instance, the Congress workers of Tinsukia district staged protests against the arrest of the former Union Finance Minister, P Chidambaram on Wednesday night.

The protesting Congress workers burned the effigies of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

One of the protesters said, “The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), since assuming power, has been torturing Congress leaders and not only Congress; the other parties’ leaders are also facing the same dangers. All are in danger and nobody knows who will be picked up and against which false allegation.”

Another protester said, “P Chidambaram has been picked up based on the statement of a lady who herself is in the jail, and that too on the charges of killing her own daughter. Everything is a conspiracy by the BJP government.”

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