Tushar Mehta, the Centre’s second most-senior law officer who is appearing for the investigating agency, told the top court that one key witness refused to appear for face-to-face with Chidambaram "because he is too powerful".
P Chidambaram’s judicial custody at Tihar is set to end on October 3, the same day when the court listed his application seeking home-cooked food inside jail.
The apex court had allowed Karti to travel to the United States, Spain and Germany this month and next month, asking him to deposit another Rs.10 crore as the security deposit.
On August 23, the Delhi court judge OP Saini had extended the interim protection from arrest to former Union finance minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti in the Aircel-Maxis cases for the 21st time.