Chidambaram moves SC for listing of plea against trial court order

New Delhi, August 26

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Monday moved the Supreme Court, saying his plea challenging the trial court’s order remanding him to CBI custody in the INX medica case had not been listed for hearing on Monday despite the apex court’s direction on August 23.

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Chidambaram, mentioned the matter before a bench headed by Justice R Banumathi and said that during the hearing on Friday last, the court had said that the plea challenging the remand order would be taken up for hearing on Monday but it had not been listed for arguments.

The bench told Sibal that Chidambaram’s plea would be listed for hearing after the registry got necessary orders from Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi.

“The registry has some difficulty and we have to take orders from the Chief Justice,” the bench told Sibal.

Chidambaram’s pleas challenging the Delhi High Court’s August 28 order dismissing his anticipatory bail in the INX media corruption and money laundering cases lodged by the CBI and ED are listed for hearing in the apex court on Monday. PTI