After holding hearings of over 11 hours running into five days, the Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its order on P Chidambaram’s anticipatory bail plea in the money laundering case lodged by Enforcement Directorate and extended interim protection till September 5 when the court will pronounce its order.
It is rare that an anticipatory bail plea is heard so extensively and the time taken by a bench of Justices R Banumathi and A S Bopanna indicates the stakes involved for ED and Chidambaram in the context of allegations of apolitical witchhunt.
After holding hearings of over 11 hours running into five days, the Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its order on P Chidambaram’s anticipatory bail plea in the money laundering case lodged by Enforcement Directorate and extended interim protection till September 5 when the court will pronounce its order.
It is rare that an anticipatory bail plea is heard so extensively and the time taken by a bench of Justices R Banumathi and A S Bopanna indicates the stakes involved for ED and Chidambaram in the context of allegations of apolitical witchhunt.