{"id":3840,"date":"2019-08-22T07:38:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T07:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2019-08-22T07:38:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T07:38:40","slug":"sibal-expresses-concern-after-chidambaram-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=3840","title":{"rendered":"Sibal expresses concern after Chidambaram arrest &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, <\/strong>\u00a0Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal expressed concern on Thursday after the court rejected an anticipatory bail plea of former union minister P. Chidambaram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a matter of great concern to us. When a high court rejects an anticipatory bail and that also after the person has been protected for 15 months in one case and about 13 months in the other case,&#8221; Sibal said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The judge hears the matter, reserve order on the 25th of January and then passes an order after 7 months, 2-3 days before his retirement, not giving us enough time to move the supreme court. In those circumstances, the supreme court should have allowed the hearing,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All that we wanted was a hearing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday evening, high drama preceded Chidambaram&#8217;s arrest as CBI officials scaled the walls of his Jor Bagh residence here, minutes after his press conference at the party headquarters where he said he was &#8220;not hiding from the law but seeking protection of the law&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, \u00a0Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal expressed concern on Thursday after the court rejected an anticipatory bail plea of former union minister P. Chidambaram. &#8220;It&#8217;s a matter of great concern to us. When a high court rejects an anticipatory bail and that also after the person has been protected for 15 months in one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3842,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions\/3842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}