JOIN USINX Media corruption case: SC rejects CBI's review plea against bail granted to P Chidamabaram
The Supreme Court has dismissed a review petition filed by the CBI against the October 22, 2019 judgement, that had granted bail to former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in a corruption case.
A bench of Justices R Banumathi, A S Bopanna and Hrishikesh Roy also rejected the plea for oral hearing in the matter.
Review petitions are considered by judges inside the chamber without assistance from counsel.
In an order passed on Tuesday, the bench said, "We have perused the review petition and the connected papers carefully and are convinced that the order, of which review has been sought, does not suffer from any error apparent warranting its reconsideration."
On October 22, 2019, the court had granted bail to Chidambaram in the case. It had then set aside the Delhi High Court judgement of September 30, 2019 that had rejected his bail plea and stated that possibility of him influencing witnesses cannot be ruled out.
Even after the bail by the top court, Chidambaram, at that time, could not walk free since he was by then arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on October 17, 2019 in a separate money laundering case.
The CBI had lodged an FIR on May 15, 2017 for irregularities in a Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance to INX Media group for receiving overseas funds of Rs 305 crore in 2007, during his tenure as the Finance Minister.