CBI questions P Chidambaram in INX Media case: A timeline of events

Delhi HC has granted Chidambaram interim protection from arrest until July 3 in the case.

 

On May 15 last year, the CBI had registered an FIR for alleged irregularities in the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance to INX Media for receiving overseas funds to the tune of Rs 3.05 billion in 2007, when Chidambaram was the finance minister during the first term of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.

The other accused in the case include then INX media director Indrani Mukerjea and then INX news director Peter Mukerjea.

Here is a detailed timeline of the INX media case:

May 15, 2017: CBI files FIR alleging irregularities in Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance to INX Media for receiving overseas funds to the tune of Rs 3.05 billion in 2007 when Karti’s father was the Union Finance minister.

June 16, 2017: The Foreigner Regional Registration Officer (FRRO) and the Bureau of Immigration, under the Union Home Ministry, issues look out circular (LOC) against Karti.

August 10, 2017: Madras HC stays the LOCs issued against Karti and four others.

August 14, 2017: Supreme Court (SC) stays Madras HC order staying Centre’s LOC issued against Karti.

August 18, 2017: SC asks Karti to appear before the CBI on August 23.

September 22, 2017: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) tells SC that Karti was prevented from travelling abroad as he was allegedly closing several of his foreign bank accounts.

December 8, 2017: Karti moves SC challenging summons issued by the CBI in the Aircel-Maxis deal case.

January 31, 2018: SC remands back to Madras HC the pleas relating to issuance of LOCs against Karti and others.

February 16, 2018: Karti’s CA S Bhaskararaman arrested for allegedly assisting him to manage his “ill-gotten wealth” in India and abroad.

February 28, 2018: Karti is arrested by the CBI at the Chennai airport and brought to Delhi. Delhi court sends him to one-day police custody.

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Marital rape: Sexual intercourse by man with wife not rape, Centre to HC

The Union government on Monday defended, before the Delhi High Court, the Indian Penal Code provision that says sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife, who is not under 15 years of age, is not rape.

A division bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhigra Sehgal was told by the government, through an affidavit, that "exception 2 (to Section 375 IPC) deals exclusively with private affairs of husband-wife based on traditional social structure and hence can't be said to be unconstitutional and in violation of Articles 14 to 21 of the Constitution".

Section 375, which defines "rape" also contains the exception provision which states that the rape law would not apply to assault or sexual intercourse by a husband on his wife who is above 15 years.

The government admitted before the court that "although the age of consent is 18 years and child marriage is discouraged, marriage below the permissible age is avoidable but not void in law on account of social realities. It is submitted that the social, economic and educational development in the country is still uneven and child marriages are read more..