- By Aalok Sensharma
- Thu, 04 Jul 2019 01:24 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: Indrani Mukerjea’s application seeking to become an approver in the INX Media corruption case involving P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram was allowed by a special court on Thursday.
Special judge Arun Bhardwaj pardoned Mukerjea, who was an accused in the case after she submitted that she voluntarily agreed to become an approver in the case.
The court has issued a production warrant for Mukerjea, who is jailed in another case in Mumbai.
She is currently in Mumbai's Byculla Jail awaiting trial for the murder of her daughter Sheena Bora.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had registered a PMLA case in this deal case on the basis of a CBI FIR and had alleged that irregularities took place in the FIPB clearance to INX Media for receiving overseas funds to the tune of Rs 305 crore in 2007 when P Chidambaram was the Union finance minister.
It had registered an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR), the ED's equivalent of a police FIR, against the accused named in a CBI complaint, including Karti Chidambaram, INX Media and its directors Peter and Indrani Mukerjea.
Karti Chidambaram was also arrested on February 28 by the CBI for allegedly taking money to facilitate the FIPB clearance to INX Media in 2007. He was later granted bail.
(with PTI inputs)