No allegations against me for trying to influence witnesses: Chidambaram

Former Union Minister P Chidambaram Monday opposed the CBI’s claim in the Delhi High Court that he was the “main conspirator” in the INX Media case, saying he has “not received any payment” into any of his “bank accounts or by any other manner”.

Strongly opposing CBI demand to not grant him bail, senior advocate Kapil Sibal told Justice Suresh Kumar Kait that “allegation of influencing witnesses and tampering with evidence are bereft of any particulars and are nothing but conjectures…”

“The said allegations are predicated on possibility, apprehension and or potential,” Sibal said, adding that the “liberty of a citizen cannot be interfered with merely on the basis of possibility or apprehension or potential and in the absence of any substantive and cogent material in support of such allegations”.