INX Media Case: Chidambaram's CBI custody ends today
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)'s five-day custody of former Union Finance and Home Minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media case ended on Monday.
The federal probe agency is likely to appeal for the extension of Chidambaram's custody.
The senior Congress leader was arrested on Wednesday and the CBI court had handed over a five-day custody of Chidambaram on Thursday.
Chidambaram was arrested after the Supreme Court refused to hear on Wednesday the plea against the Delhi High Court's denial of an interim protection to the former Union Minister on an urgent basis.
In an unprecedented development, a team of CBI reached the Jor Bagh residence of the senior politician, thumped at the gate and then scaled the wall of his house to enter inside the residence right after he left the Congress headquarters on Wednesday evening following a press conference.
After taking the senior politician into custody, the CBI team drove to the headquarters along with him. Chidambaram spent the entire Wednesday night at the CBI headquarters.
Meanwhile, a petition challenging Chidambaram's arrest by the federal investigating agency CBI in the INX Media scam case will be heard by the Supreme Court on Monday.
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