[IBREAKING] Sufficient material to proceed further: Delhi Court summons P Chidambaram, Karti Chidambaram in INX Media money laundering case

A Delhi Court today took cognizance of Enforcement Directorate's chargesheet against P Chidambaram, Karti Chidambaram and others in INX Media money laundering case. (ED vs P Chidambaram & Ors).Special CBI Judge NK Nagpal issued notice to all accused persons for April 7 in the matter and said,."I find sufficient material and grounds for proceeding further in the matter against all the ten accused persons named in the complaint, out of which six accused are companies, for commission of offence under Section 3 read with Section 70 of the PMLA, which is punishable under Section 4 of the said Act....let summons for appearance to all the accused persons through the complainant of the case be issued by all the prescribed modes for 07.04.2021.".The other accused in the case include Chartered Accountant S Bhaskaraman and Peter Mukherjea. INX Media Pvt Ltd, Advantage Strategic companies , Kriya FMCG Distributors Pvt Ltd, North Star Software Solutions are also named in the chargesheet. .Indrani Mukherjea, Peter Mukherjea's wife and prime accused in Sheena Bora murder case, is an approver in the present case..The INX Media case pertains to the alleged irregularities in the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance to INX Media at the time when P Chidambaram was the Finance Minister. It is the case of the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that P Chidambaram and his son Karti had received illegal gratification from INX Media owners Peter and Indrani Mukherjea for the clearance. .P Chidambaram was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from his residence in relation to the case on August 21, 2019, a day after his plea for anticipatory bail was rejected by the Delhi High Court..The High Court had opined that prima facie, the allegations were serious in nature and that P Chidambaram had played a “key and active role”.After nearly two months, Chidambaram was granted bail by the Supreme Court in the CBI case. He was finally released from Tihar Jail after the Supreme court granted him bail in the ED case on December 4, 2019..Karti was granted bail in the case by Delhi High Court in March 2018..CBI Court had taken cognizance of the CBI's chargesheet against P Chidambaram, son Karti Chidambaram and others in the INX Media case, on October 21, 2019..Read the order: