Visa Scam: ED Opposes Karti Chidambaram's Anticipatory Bail Plea in Money Laundering Case in HC
News 18The Enforcement Directorate Wednesday opposed in the Delhi High Court the anticipatory bail plea of Congress MP Karti P Chidambaram in the alleged Chinese Visas scam case, saying there is no genuine apprehension of his arrest. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing Karti, said there were no proceeds of crime here and he was not a flight risk and was He said the incident relates to 2011 and the CBI and ED registered the FIR and Enforcement Case Information Report on May 15, 2022, and May 25, 2022, respectively. ”The nature and gravity of the alleged offences, the nascent stage of the investigation, and also the previous criminal antecedents of accused Karti P Chidambaram and S Bhaskararaman do not make out a case for grant of anticipatory bail to the applicants or for any further interim protection to them for joining of the investigation of this case as it will seriously hamper the process and progress of the investigation,” the trial court had said. It had also noted that there were four other cases – two by CBI and two by the ED concerning both alleged INX Media and Aircel-Maxis scams – pending before it and both Karti and Bhaskararaman were even arrested in one of such cases and were subsequently granted regular bail, though anticipatory bail was granted to them in the other cases.