INX Media case: After 23 days in custody, Karti Chidambaram gets bail
INX Media case: After 23 days in custody, Karti Chidambaram gets bail
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NEW DELHI:  After 23 days in custody, Junior Chidambaram Karti, the son of former Union minister P Chidambaram, got bail today. The 46-year-old businessman was detained on March 1 from Chennai airport just minutes after he de-boarded an incoming flight from London. He has been prime accused of receiving government clearance for foreign investments worth around Rs. 300 crores in television company INX Media in exchange for bribes in 2007.

Investigators asserted he used the influence of his father, who was the Union Finance Minister in the UPA regime.

Officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation, which is investigating the case, had stated Karti Chidambaram was not cooperating with the investigators. They wanted to keep him in custody and inquiry him.

The former minister and his son have called the arrest a case of "political vendetta". Karti Chidambaram has told the court that he was being targeted as he was the son of a politician.

The Delhi HC had set aside its judgment on March 16 after hearing arguments on behalf of Karti  against him by the CBI which had opposed the grant of bail to him.

The CBI had competed that he should not be granted bail as he has already smashed evidence in the case and was an "influential" person.

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