SC allows Karti to withdraw plea, asks him to approach Delhi HC

New Delhi, March 8

The Supreme Court has asked Karti Chidambaram to approach the Delhi High Court on Thursday for seeking any interim relief in the INX Media money laundering case.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra requested the acting Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court to allocate Karti’s matter to an appropriate bench so that it could be taken up for hearing on Friday.
The bench, also comprising Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud, also allowed Karti to withdraw his plea pending with the apex court related to the money laundering case.
The top court had on March 6 refused to grant any interim protection to the son of former Union finance minister P Chidambaram.
Karti had approached the apex court seeking direction to declare that the Enforcement Directorate had no jurisdiction to conduct any investigation unrelated to the allegations in the FIR lodged by the CBI on May 15, 2017.
He had also sought the quashing of summons and all the proceedings initiated by the ED, terming it “unreasonable, without jurisdiction, without authority of law, in colourable exercise of power and vitiated by mala fides”.
Karti was arrested on February 28 in Chennai immediately after he returned from abroad.