Probe agencies destroying my reputation on daily basis: Chidambaram to SC

Former Union finance minister P Chidambaram told the Supreme Court Monday that his reputation is being “destroyed” on a daily basis by the probe agencies in the INX Media cases even as the Enforcement Directorate asserted that it needed to interrogate him in custody.

Chidamabaram’s counsel told the top court that he is sought by ED to be “vicariously involved” in the INX Media money laundering case as he is the father of Karti Chidambaram, who according to the probe agencies tried to influence the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) members.

A bench of Justices R Banumathi and A S Bopanna extended till Tuesday the protection from arrest granted to Chidambaram in the money laundering case as the hearing remained inconclusive in the matter.