Documents in question obtained from wife, son: Chidambaram

New Delhi: Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s legal team on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that the “documents in question”, relating to his approval in the INX Media case, were obtained from Chidambaram’s wife, Nalini, and son, Karti Chidambaram.
In an affidavit filed before Justice Suresh Kumar Kait, Chidambaram’s counsel said that “the said documents have been obtained by the petitioner from his son and wife”, and were part of the Relied Upon Documents (RUD) filed by the Enforcement Directorate in the proceedings initiated before the Adjudicating Authority in which Karti and Nalini Chidambaram were made the defendants.
The court had on Friday asked Chidambaram to file an affidavit stating the source of the documents relating to the approval, which were being referred to by his lawyers during the hearing of his bail plea.
During the course of arguments, senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi said: “The entirety of this offence is a consultancy payment made to Advantage India and the whole base of it is the statement of an accused who is already in custody for the murder of her own daughter.” “The Non-Bailable Warrant issued against Mr Chidambaram is illegal and the whole arrest was based on this illegal warrant,” he added.
Arguing on the point of gravity, Singhvi said: “The best test to judge the gravity of an offence is the length of the punishment.”