Overview

• Justice Ravinder Dudeja modified the 2018 bail condition that required trial-court permission before each foreign trip.
• Karti Chidambaram must now notify the court and the CBI at least two weeks before travelling abroad and share a full itinerary.
• The order directs him to attend proceedings regularly and not attempt to protract the trial, with a detailed order awaited.
• The CBI opposed any relaxation, invoking the Vijay Mallya precedent to argue continued risk in easing travel curbs.
• The INX Media probe by the CBI and ED, launched in 2017 over alleged FIPB irregularities and fake invoices tied to funds of about Rs 305–307 crore, remains ongoing.