SC Refuses to stay on ED Summons in Karti Chidambaram

New Delhi Feb 24: A Major Embarrassment for Karti Chidambaram former finance Minister son P Chidambaram as Supreme Court today refused to stay a summon order issued by the Enforcement Directorate against him in the INX Media money laundering case.

The CBI has said that "he was not a common criminal but his plea for quashing the notice was a guise for an anticipatory bail plea."

The SC had told Karti that "he should request the competent authority for postponement of ED summons seeking his appearance on March 1."

The CBI had argued that "I agree that he (Karti) is not a common criminal. But has the court allowed a common criminal to move such an application? This is a sheer abuse of the process of law".

Earlier Kapil Sibal had argued that "Karti was not a common criminal that he was being called by the ED month after month and made to sit for hours and hours".

Finally, the court has fixed the next hearing on March 6.