PC’s judicial custody extended till Oct 17
Former Union Minister Loses 4Kg; Court Allows Home-Cooked Food In Jail
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi:04.10.2019
On a day when a Delhi court extended his judicial custody until October 17, former finance minister P Chidambaram moved the Supreme Court seeking bail in the INX Media case, alleging that the CBI was trying to prolong his judicial custody to humiliate him and urged that the principle ‘bail is the rule, jail is the exception’ be followed in his case.
The Congress veteran also said the Delhi high court had erred in denying him bail on the basis of unsubstantiated allegations.
Appearing for Chidambaram, senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Abhishek Manu Singhvi urged a bench of Justices N V Ramana, Sanjiv Khanna and Krishna Murari to list the plea for urgent hearing as the former FM had been in custody for 42 days and the apex court would be heading for Durga Puja vacation from next week.
The matter has been listed for hearing before an SC bench of Justices R Banumathi and Hrishikesh Roy on Friday. On September 5, a bench headed by Justice Banumathi had denied anticipatory bail to Chidambaram in the INX Media money-laundering case lodged by the Enforcement Directorate.
On Thursday, a Delhi court extended the former Union minister’s incarceration in Tihar Jail until October 17, while accepting his plea to allow him home-cooked food in jail. The former FM’s lawyers, Sibal and Singhvi, listed out a series of ailments that required him to consumer home-cooked food.
“He is 74 years of age... is suffering from inflammation of his digestive tract. In these circumstances, it may be conducive to his health condition that he is provided homecooked food once a day to avoid any further deterioration in his health condition,” special judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar said.
The court, however, clarified that the order could not to be taken as a precedent as the concession for home food was given in the specific facts and circumstances and keeping Chidambaram’s medical condition in mind.
In the SC, Sibal and Singhvi argued that Delhi HC had erred by relying upon “anonymous and unverified allegations” while rejecting Chidambaram’s bail plea on September 30. The HC had dismissed his bail plea saying investigation was at an advanced stage and the possibility of his influencing witnesses could not be ruled out.
“Bail is the rule, jail is the exception. Arrest and custody are a humiliation and social stigma. The prosecution seems to think that prolonged judicial custody is a punishment they can impose on the petitioner. Court should frown upon the attempt of the prosecution to use judicial custody as kind of pre-trial punishment,” Chidambaram said.
He also cited his frail health and said he was agreeable to any condition imposed by the court for granting him bail. “The petitioner is 74 years old. His health is frail. He has been kept in a cell and given food that he is not accustomed to. He has already lost four kg weight in the period of his judicial custody,” the petition said.
Former Union Minister Loses 4Kg; Court Allows Home-Cooked Food In Jail
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi:04.10.2019
On a day when a Delhi court extended his judicial custody until October 17, former finance minister P Chidambaram moved the Supreme Court seeking bail in the INX Media case, alleging that the CBI was trying to prolong his judicial custody to humiliate him and urged that the principle ‘bail is the rule, jail is the exception’ be followed in his case.
The Congress veteran also said the Delhi high court had erred in denying him bail on the basis of unsubstantiated allegations.
Appearing for Chidambaram, senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Abhishek Manu Singhvi urged a bench of Justices N V Ramana, Sanjiv Khanna and Krishna Murari to list the plea for urgent hearing as the former FM had been in custody for 42 days and the apex court would be heading for Durga Puja vacation from next week.
The matter has been listed for hearing before an SC bench of Justices R Banumathi and Hrishikesh Roy on Friday. On September 5, a bench headed by Justice Banumathi had denied anticipatory bail to Chidambaram in the INX Media money-laundering case lodged by the Enforcement Directorate.
On Thursday, a Delhi court extended the former Union minister’s incarceration in Tihar Jail until October 17, while accepting his plea to allow him home-cooked food in jail. The former FM’s lawyers, Sibal and Singhvi, listed out a series of ailments that required him to consumer home-cooked food.
“He is 74 years of age... is suffering from inflammation of his digestive tract. In these circumstances, it may be conducive to his health condition that he is provided homecooked food once a day to avoid any further deterioration in his health condition,” special judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar said.
The court, however, clarified that the order could not to be taken as a precedent as the concession for home food was given in the specific facts and circumstances and keeping Chidambaram’s medical condition in mind.
In the SC, Sibal and Singhvi argued that Delhi HC had erred by relying upon “anonymous and unverified allegations” while rejecting Chidambaram’s bail plea on September 30. The HC had dismissed his bail plea saying investigation was at an advanced stage and the possibility of his influencing witnesses could not be ruled out.
“Bail is the rule, jail is the exception. Arrest and custody are a humiliation and social stigma. The prosecution seems to think that prolonged judicial custody is a punishment they can impose on the petitioner. Court should frown upon the attempt of the prosecution to use judicial custody as kind of pre-trial punishment,” Chidambaram said.
He also cited his frail health and said he was agreeable to any condition imposed by the court for granting him bail. “The petitioner is 74 years old. His health is frail. He has been kept in a cell and given food that he is not accustomed to. He has already lost four kg weight in the period of his judicial custody,” the petition said.
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