SC stays Madras HC’s order on ‘Lookout Notice’ against Karti

SC stays Madras HC’s order on ‘Lookout Notice’ against Karti

New Delhi, August 14 : The Supreme Court on Monday stayed Madras High Court’s order suspending a lookout notice against businessman Karti Chidambaram in a corruption case after the central government appealed the order. A Bench of Chief Justice JS Khehar and Justice DY Chandrachud, which heard the central government’s urgent appeal against the lower court’s order, also issued Chidambaram a notice for not joining investigations and said it would hear the case on Friday. The Madras High Court had on August 10 stayed the ‘look out circulars’ issued against Karti Chidambaram, son former finance minister P Chidamabaram, and four others by the Centre over a corruption case filed by the CBI, holding that they were prima facie “unwarranted”. Besides Karti, his associates CBN Reddy, Ravi Viswanathan, Mohanan Rajesh and S Bhaskararaman had also got the interim relief. Noting that the impugned circular had been issued just a day after the notice was sent under relevant CrPC sections asking Karti to appear on June 29 for questioning, the high court had said, “this…according to this court, is prima facie unwarranted”.

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