A Special CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) court on Friday dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of Congress MP Karti Chidambaram in the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) money-laundering case in relation to the CBI's bribes for visa scam probe.
Special Judge M.K. Nagpal on Friday also dismissed the anticipatory bail pleas of co-accused S. Bhaskararaman (Karti's Chartered Accountant) and Vikas Makharia, the representative of the Mansa-based company, who is accused of approaching Mr. Bhaskararaman and paying him the bribe amount for getting the approval to reuse the project visas.
The court noted that if anticipatory bail is granted to the three accused in this case at this "nascent stage", "then their conduct and behaviour during investigation is bound to change and they may not provide any useful information to the investigating agency... interrogation of the accused armed with anticipatory bail order will stand reduced to a mere ritual than the investigation."
