SC refuses P Chidambaram’s Petition on INX Media case

21 Aug 2019 Evaluate

Congress leader P Chidambaram has failed to get relief from the Supreme Court (SC) in INX Media case as his Special Leave Petition (SLP) could not be listed in the court due to some defects.

The Congress leader's petition seeking a pre-arrest bail was not cleared by the Supreme Court registry as it had certain defects. Earlier, a bench headed by senior-most judge Justice NV Ramana referred Chidambaram's plea to Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi. CJI Gogoi, however, had commenced hearing in the Ayodhya dispute case due to which Chidambaram's counsel Kapil Sibal was unable to mention the matter before him for urgent hearing.

On asked by the judge, the Registrar said that there were defects in the petition, which have been rectified now and it will be listed. Justice Ramana said that the matter is not listed yet so he cannot hear it. He said ‘We have done all that we can. We have considered your request and directed the registry to list it. Without listing, we cannot hear the case’.

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