INX Media case: Delhi court allows ED to quiz Chidambaram tomorrow, arrest if needed

NEW DELHI: After the court passed the order, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and Special Public Prosecutor Amit Mahajan, appearing for the ED, sought permission to question Chidambaram, 74, in some space available in Rouse Avenue court premises.

The court, however, said: “It’s not in the dignity of this person that you interrogate and arrest him here in public view.”

It said the ED in this case had moved the application seeking production warrant of the accused as he was in custody in case being investigated by the CBI for the predicate offence.

It said: “The DoE (Directorate of Enforcement) cannot interrogate accused without the permission of the court, he being in custody of this court. The application therefore sought for his production in the court for the purpose of arrest and remand.