NEW DELHI: Amid lockdown, the Enforcement Directorate on Monday filed a prosecution complaint (chargesheet) against former FM P Chidambaram and his son Karti in the INX-Media money laundering case in a Delhi court.
The chargesheet was filed through the e-filing facility even as the court refused to take cognizance of the matter and directed the agency to file it once again when the normal court functioning begins. The court it seems has deferred taking cognizance of the prosecution complaint.
This is first chargesheet against Chidambaram and his son in the INX-Media case being investigated under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act though the CBI and ED had earlier filed another chargesheet against the father and son in the Aircel-Maxis case. If the special PMLA court at Rouse Avenue in the Capital takes cognizance of the chargesheet, the trial of the former FM begins.
In the INX-Medi