SC lets Karti Chidambaram travel abroad, warns not to 'play with the law'

SC lets Karti Chidambaram travel abroad, warns not to 'play with the law' The apex court asked Karti Chidambaram to appear before the Enforcement Directorate on March 5, 6, 7 and 12

Current affairs: The Supreme Court Wednesday allowed former Finance Minister P Chidambaram's son Karti Chidambaram to travel abroad after depositing Rs 10 crore with its registry but asked him to cooperate with the probe in the INX Media and Aircel Maxis cases, saying "don't play around with the law".

The apex court asked Karti to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March 5, 6, 7 and 12 for questioning in connection with the INX Media and Aircel Maxis cases.

"You go wherever you want to go, between February 10 and 26 but you must cooperate with the investigation," a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said.

"Please tell your clients that he will have to cooperate. You have not cooperated. We wanted to say a lot of things. We are not saying them right now," the bench said.

The top court had on Monday asked the ED to specify the date on which it wants to interrogate Karti.

Besides asking Karti to deposit Rs 10 crore with the secretary general of the Supreme Court, the bench also asked him to file an undertaking that he would return and cooperate with the...read more

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