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Karti Chidambaram was remanded to three more days of police custody by a Delhi court today in the INX Media case. The CBI today produced him before the court and sought an extension of his custody to quiz him saying “new revelations” have come up and his custodial interrogation was necessary to confront him with the “new facts”.
The agency produced Karti on expiry of his five-day police custody before special judge Sunil Rana. It said though there has been “substantial progress” in the last four days into the investigation into the case, Karti has “not been cooperating” and not parting with his phones passwords and to every question, he has been saying that “I am politically victimised”.
Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the CBI, said Karti was taken to Mumbai and was confronted with Indrani Mukherjee, one of the then promoters of INX media at the Byculla prison and her statement has been just one of the evidences.
The ASG alleged that witnesses in the case are being approached and evidences destroyed.
Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for Karti, said the CBI just want to keep him in custody by hook or crook.