New Delhi - “Same food is available for everyone,” said Justice Suresh Kumar Kait after P.Chidambaram’s counsel Kapil Sibal requested the court that home cooked food be allowed to his client in jail. The former union minister is currently in Tihar Jail in INX Media corruption case
Responding to the court’s remark, Sibal said, “My Lords, he is 74 years old.”
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta then responded, “Even Chautala is old and is a political prisoner. As a state, we can’t distinguish [between] anyone.”
The arguments took place while the court was hearing the regular bail application filed by the Chidambaram in CBI case pertaining to INX media.
During the course of hearing, Chidambaram’s counsel Kapil Sibal argued that the offences against his client have only seven years of imprisonment.
He further argued that the charges of section 420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) can’t even be made out as he has no role.
On Wednesday, Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram had alleged that the INX Media case is “political vendetta” and the investigation agency is “acting at the behest of the Centre”.
“It is the petitioner’s case that the instant criminal proceeding is a mala fide and is borne out of political vendetta and the investigation agency is acting at the behest of the Centre which wants to malign the untainted and unimpeachable reputation of the peititoner,” Chidambaram had said in his applications filed before the Delhi High Court.
