Reportedly former finance minister P chidambaram on Thursday was sent to judicial custody in Tihar jail till September 19 in the INX Media case after a delhi Court declined to accept his request to free him on bail and he is to be lodged in jail number 7 in Tihar Jail.
Furthermore he was brought to the special court hours after he withdrew his petition challenging the non-bailable warrant (NBW) issued against him following which he was sent to the CBI custody. Apparently in a last ditch effort to convince the judge to keep chidambaram out of Tihar jail, his legal team had minutes earlier even offered his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate which could take him into custody to question him.
Moreover special Judge ajay Kumar Kuhar sent chidambaram to judicial custody till September 19, allowing him to carry his medicines to jail. Perhaps after considering that he has Z-level security, the court directed that chidambaram be kept in a separate cell. Further senior lawyer and another senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal, representing chidambaram, told the court that the CBI did not have any reason to remand him in judicial custody but to humiliate the senior Congress leader who has been the country’s finance and home minister.
