The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday orally assured the Delhi High Court that no coercive action will be taken against Congress MP Karti P Chidambaram till July 12, when his anticipatory bail plea in the alleged Chinese Visas scam will be taken up for hearing.
Justice Jasmeet Singh also asked the ED to file a status report on the matter before the next date of hearing.
Additional Solicitor General SV Raju, representing the ED, orally assured the court that nothing will happen till July 12, next hearing.
"I will not make a statement but it is understood that nothing will happen till then. My understanding is only till the 12th (of July)," he said, adding that there is no apprehension of the arrest. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Karti, urged the court to grant interim protection from arrest to Karti till the next date of hearing.
Karti had approached the High Court after his anticipatory bail plea and that of two others was dismissed by the trial court on June 3 on the ground that the offence was of a very serious nature.
Following CBI’s FIR, the ED registered the money laundering case against Karti and others in the alleged scam pertaining to the issuance of a visa to 263 Chinese nationals in 2011 when his father P Chidambaram was the Home Minister.