Bombay High Court seeks P Chidambaram's response on 63 Moons suit

The court rejected a plea by Chidambaram's counsel to grant the former finance minister some leeway on the grounds that he is currently in jail.

The Bombay High Court has directed former finance minister P Chidambaram and two bureaucrats -- Ramesh Abhishek, former chairman of the Forward Markets Commission (FMC) and K P Krishnan, a former officer in the Union Finance Ministry  -- to file their replies in eight weeks, to allegations made in a Rs 10,000-crore defamation suit filed by 63 Moons Technologies.

Hearing the case, Justice A K Menon warned that 63 Moons Technologies would be at liberty to apply for an ex-parte order if the three individuals named above fail to reply within two months. The case pertains to the Rs 5,600-crore