The Delhi High Court today clarified that there was no “cut and paste” in its order pronounced in the bail plea by P Chidambaram in the INX Media case..A Single Judge Bench of Justice Suresh Kumar Kait, who pronounced the order last week, took up the issue suo motu today, pursuant to an article by The Hindu alleging a copy-paste mishap in the order..The Court noted that a similar article was published by The Indian Express and has now directed their Chief Editors to clarify and publish that there was no cut-paste job in their newspapers on November 19..To deal with the contentions with respect to the 2013 Amendment to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act while deciding the question of bail to P Chidambaram, the Court had quoted from the High Court’s order in Rohit Tandon v. Enforcement Directorate..However, in subsequent paragraphs no. 35 & 36, it accidentally went on to reproduce the facts of the Rohit Tandon case as recorded in paragraph 16 & 18 of the order passed in the case in May 2017..As per the Court’s clarification issued today, Justice Kait has stated that the paragraphs only record the observations made in the Rohit Tandon case..“It has nowhere been mentioned that the observation made in para 35 of the present case (in the case of P Chidambaram). Thus there is no cut and paste as alleged and I hereby make it clear that that the observations made in para 35 shall be read as and are confined to the case of Rohit Tandon vs Enforcement Directorate.”.Justice Kait has therefore ordered,.“Therefore, the Chief Editors of the above mentioned newspapers (The Hindu and The Indian Express) who have published the aforementioned wrong averments are directed to clarify the same in their newspaper on 19.11.2019.”.The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has also moved the Delhi High Court seeking rectification of the “inadvertent factual errors” and “accidental slips” in the order passed by the High Court while deciding the bail plea filed by P Chidambaram in the INX Media money laundering case..The application is likely to be taken up for hearing tomorrow..[Read the Order]
The Delhi High Court today clarified that there was no “cut and paste” in its order pronounced in the bail plea by P Chidambaram in the INX Media case..A Single Judge Bench of Justice Suresh Kumar Kait, who pronounced the order last week, took up the issue suo motu today, pursuant to an article by The Hindu alleging a copy-paste mishap in the order..The Court noted that a similar article was published by The Indian Express and has now directed their Chief Editors to clarify and publish that there was no cut-paste job in their newspapers on November 19..To deal with the contentions with respect to the 2013 Amendment to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act while deciding the question of bail to P Chidambaram, the Court had quoted from the High Court’s order in Rohit Tandon v. Enforcement Directorate..However, in subsequent paragraphs no. 35 & 36, it accidentally went on to reproduce the facts of the Rohit Tandon case as recorded in paragraph 16 & 18 of the order passed in the case in May 2017..As per the Court’s clarification issued today, Justice Kait has stated that the paragraphs only record the observations made in the Rohit Tandon case..“It has nowhere been mentioned that the observation made in para 35 of the present case (in the case of P Chidambaram). Thus there is no cut and paste as alleged and I hereby make it clear that that the observations made in para 35 shall be read as and are confined to the case of Rohit Tandon vs Enforcement Directorate.”.Justice Kait has therefore ordered,.“Therefore, the Chief Editors of the above mentioned newspapers (The Hindu and The Indian Express) who have published the aforementioned wrong averments are directed to clarify the same in their newspaper on 19.11.2019.”.The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has also moved the Delhi High Court seeking rectification of the “inadvertent factual errors” and “accidental slips” in the order passed by the High Court while deciding the bail plea filed by P Chidambaram in the INX Media money laundering case..The application is likely to be taken up for hearing tomorrow..[Read the Order]
