INX Media case: Chidambaram knocks the door of Delhi HC, trial court

Former finance minister P Chidambaram, who is in Tihar jail, knocked the doors of the Delhi High Court and a trial court on Thursday in connection with corruption and money laundering cases arising out of the INX Media scam.

Chidambaram, who will spend his 74th birthday on Monday in the prison, pleaded for bail in the corruption case in the high court and sought permission from the trial court to surrender in the money laundering case.

A battery of senior advocates including his party colleagues from Congress, Kapil Sibal, A M Singhvi, Vivek Tankha and Salman Khurshid appeared for Chidambaram in the high court before Justice Suresh Kait who asked the CBI to file status report on his bail plea within a week and posted the matter for hearing on September 23.