P Chidambaram's custody extended to Friday: Delhi HC
New Delhi, Aug 26 (IBNS): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday secured four more days custody of former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram in connection with the INX Media scam case.
The senior Congress leader will be in custody till Friday, the Delhi High Court ruled.
The CBI claimed that they needed more custody alleging that Chidambaram had been "uncooperative".
Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court refused to entertain two petitions filed by the former Union Finance Minister who was arrested by the CBI on last Wednesday in connection with the INX Media case.
The Supreme Court refused to hear the plea challenging the CBI's five-day custody as it was "not listed" for the hearing. The petition will be listed only after Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi's orders.
Chidambaram's plea against the Delhi High Court's denial of an interim protection to the former Minister was also not entertained by the top court.
The top court has called the plea, which was filed on Wednesday, "infructuous" as Chidambaram is already under arrest. The Supreme Court had refused to hear the plea on an urgent basis.
In an unprecedented development, a team of CBI reached the Jor Bagh residence of the senior politician, thumped at the gate and then scaled the wall of his house to enter inside the residence right after he left the Congress headquarters on Wednesday evening following a press conference.
After taking the senior politician into custody, the CBI team drove to the headquarters along with him. Chidambaram spent the entire Wednesday night at the CBI headquarters.
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