Tag: Chidambaram

Ballia: An Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA has warned West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to mend her ways or get ready to meet the same fate as former finance minister P Chidambaram who is currently lodged in jail. The MLA from Bairia Assembly constituency Surendra Singh said the Trinamool Congress supremo should “become the Prime […]

New Delhi: Senior Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Ahmed Patel went to meet former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, who is currently lodged in the Tihar Jail here for his involvement in the INX Media case, sources said. “Three people had come to meet (P. Chidambaram). It was part of a regular meeting,” Tihar Jail […]

New Delhi: Former finance minister P Chidambaram, arrested in the INX Media corruption case, told the Delhi High Court Wednesday that the offences of cheating and criminal conspiracy alleged against him are not grave in nature and he should be released on bail. His counsel submitted in the court that the offences for which Chidambaram […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: An Odia IAS officer, Anup K Pujari, will be prosecuted in connection with the FIPB clearance granted to INX Media. Pujari was the secretary of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) between 2006 and 2010. The central government has issued a sanction to the CBI to prosecute Pujari, former NITI […]

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday extended till October 17 the judicial custody of P Chidambaram giving no respite to the former finance minister who has been in CBI’s custody and in jail for six weeks in the INX Media corruption case even as he moved the Supreme Court for bail. But in some […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to Congress leader P Chidambaram in a money laundering case related to INX Media and directed that he could not leave the country without its prior permission nor speak to the media. Chidambaram, who has been in custody for 105 days, should neither try to influence […]