Aircel-Maxis: Court grants time to ED, CBI to file status report on LRs to UK, other nations

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has granted till February 26 to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the CBI to obtain report on Letters Rogatory (LRs) from the UK and three other countries in relation to their ongoing probe in the Aircel-Maxis matter against former Union minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti. The agencies informed Special Judge M K Nagpal on Monday that besides United Kingdom, response to the LRs is awaited from Singapore, Malaysia and Mauritius.

During the hearing, senior advocate Sonia Mathur informed the court on behalf of the ED that despite issuance of reminder on January 7, 2021 no response has yet been received from the authorities concerned in the UK to the LR issued earlier.