Former Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, who had been arrested by the CBI in the INX Media case, received a bail order today from the Supreme Court of India’s 3-judge bench that included Justices A. Bopanna, H. Roy, and R. Banumathi. Chidambaram received bail after spending 106 days under custody.
Crux of the Matter
P. Chidambaram had been put in custody on 21st August by the CBI and the ED for money-laundering charges in the INX Media case that alleged that PC withheld the FIPB clearances until his son, Karti, had received the percentage stake.
The three-bench judge pronounced the bail on the condition that Chidambaram is not allowed to leave the country and he is barred from making any public statements pertaining to the case in the press.
As PC is not an incumbent right now, the justices also were of the opinion that he might not be able to influence or coerce the witnesses. Despite that, the court has warned him against witness and evidence tampering.
Chidambaram argued that the federal agencies’ timing of his arrest was a deliberate attempt to keep him in custody for long.
Congress lot welcomed the SC decision, while BJP MP Sambit Patra sneered at PC by calling him another member of Congress’s ‘Out on Bail‘ Club.
Curiopedia
Bail in India – India’s Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 does not define bail, although the terms bailable offence and non-bailable offence have been defined in section 2(a) of the Code. A Bailable offence is defined as an offence which is shown as bailable in the First Schedule of the Code or which is made bailable by any other law, and non-bailable offence means any other offence. A person who is arrested for a ‘bailable’ offence may secure bail at the police station, while those who fail to secure police bail and those arrested for non-bailable offences have to secure bail in court. More Info
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