04 August, 2017
This comes as Karti, this morning, moved the Madras High Court asking if any lookout notice had been issued against him. He had moved the court earlier seeking quashing of the case against him.
The latest development came after Karti did not appear for further interrogation in the INX media case despite the CBI issuing summons against the Congress leader.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday issued a lookout notice against former finance minister P. Chidambaram's son Karti Chidambaram, to not leave India and inform concerned agencies before doing so. He added that the CBI surprisingly stopped him when he was boarding at the airport and leaked it to the media that he was detained.
Karti has denied the accusations against him as being politically motivated.
He claimed that the whole aim of the central government was to "damage" their reputation. In the petition, it read that he had cooperated with the CBI, had answered all the related questions and there was no absolute cause of action for the issuance of the LOC.
Trouble started for former Union Finance minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti as CBI officials on May 16 conducted searches in Tamil Nadu as well as other states in connection with the alleged favours granted in FIPB clearance to a firm, according to PTI. Back then, the CBI had registered the case against INX Media through its director Indrani Mukerjea, Peter Mukerjea, Karti Chidambaram, Chess Management Services (a company of Karti), Advantage Strategic Consulting Limited through its Director Padma Vishwanathan.
In his petition to the court, he also added that the LOC, which was used to monitor the arrival departure of foreigners and Indians or to restrict their movement, it had been issued to restrain him from going overseas.
They said the circular was issued in the third week of June.
He said the LOC was a coercive measure to make a person surrender to the investigating agency only if it was amply demonstrated that he repeatedly and deliberately failed to cooperate with the investigation.
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