Daily Bulletin: Chidambaram's CBI custody ends; schools and colleges in Mumbai, Thane shut; day's top stories

Here are today’s top stories: SC, trial court to hear crucial plea by P Chidambaram as ex-FM’s CBI custody to end today; SC to hear Kashmir Times editor’s additional affidavit over restrictions on journalists in Valley; and more Supreme Court, trial court to hear plea by P Chidambaram as ex-FM’s CBI custody ends Thursday will be a crucial day for Congress veteran P Chidambaram, whose fate will be decided by the Supreme Court which is scheduled to pronounce verdict on his plea challenging the Delhi High Court’s verdict denying him anticipatory bail plea in the INX Media money laundering case lodged by the ED. The top court had on 3 September ordered that Chidambaram would remain in the CBI custody till 5 September despite the probe agency insisting that it did not require his further custodial interrogation. The Delhi High Court had on 20 August, rejected anticipatory bail pleas of Chidambaram in the INX media scam cases lodged by CBI and ED. Kashmir Times editor files additional affidavit in SC over restrictions on journalists in Valley; matter to be heard today Anuradha Bhasin, the executive editor of Kashmir Times, who had recently challenged the restriction on working journalists in the Kashmir Valley in the wake of the revocation of its special status, on Wednesday filed an additional affidavit in the Supreme Court.