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SC orders against sending P Chidambaram to Tihar for a day


A bench of Justices R Banumathi and A S Bopanna in the afternoon heard detailed arguments from the former Union finance minister’s lawyer Kapil Sibal on why he should not be shifted to Tihar.

NEW DELHI: In an unprecedented event, the Supreme Court on Monday directed that P Chidambaram should not be transferred to Tihar jail till Thursday even if a CBI special court rejected his bail plea, but changed the order within hours at CBI’s request to limit the protection till Tuesday.

A bench of Justices R Banumathi and A S Bopanna in the afternoon heard detailed arguments from the former Union finance minister’s lawyer Kapil Sibal on why he should not be shifted to Tihar.

“Why should I be sent to Tihar?” Sibal said. “Let me stay in CBI custody or placed under house arrest… I can go back if the Supreme Court rejects my plea against my arrest on September 5.”

The bench was reluctant but eventually came around to the view that Chidambaram’s plea against his arrest and remand must be heard by SC before his liberty was taken away, and allowed him to stay on in CBI custody till September 5, when the SC could take up his plea against his arrest and demand, even if the special judge rejected his bail plea later in the day.

An hour later Solicitor General Tushar Mehta — who had missed the hearing due to a condolence meeting in memory of Arun Jaitle ..

If under the law, Chidambaram’s remand period expires, he has to be sent to judicial custody, Mehta insisted and urged the court to let CBI seek a one-day remand from the special judge till Tuesday when the top court could take up Chidambaram’s plea. Justice Banumathi was hesitant to pass such an order, insisting that the court has a busy day on Tuesday, but later changed tack to allow CBI to do that.


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