NEW DELHI: Delhi High Court judge Justice Girish Kathpalia on Friday recused himself from hearing Congress MP Karti Chidambaram’s plea challenging the framing of charges in the Chinese Visa scam CBI case.
The trial court had framed charges of conspiracy and corruption against him.
Justice Girish Kathpalia on Friday recused himself from hearing MP Karti Chidambaram’s revision petition challenging the charges framed against him. The matter has been directed to be listed before another bench on January 28.
On January 21 (Wednesday), Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani recused himself from the hearing. Earlier, Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma had also recused himself on January 15.
Senior advocate Siddharth Luthra and advocate Arshdeep Khurana appeared for Karti Chidambaram.
Petitioner has stated that the trial court has failed to consider that the material and documents on record present an alternate picture. It is stated that the alleged conspiracy was in fact the brainchild of the approver Vikas Makharia, who used the opportunity and the already permissible provision for ‘re-use’ of Project Visas to make some money for himself and, after having pocketed the money, has turned around and pinned the blame on the other accused persons.