A Delhi court on Monday sent Karti Chidambaram to judicial custody till March 24 in the INX Media case, ANI reported. The son of former Union minister P Chidambaram has been in the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation since his arrest from Chennai airport on February 28.

Earlier on Monday, the CBI asked the court to send Karti Chidambaram, who is lodged in Tihar jail, to judicial custody for 15 days. CBI counsel VK Sharma told the court that further custodial interrogation was necessary because of “incriminating material” found against Chidambaram. On March 9, a Delhi court had sent him to CBI custody for three days.

The court dismissed Karti Chidambaram’s appeal for an urgent hearing of his bail plea and scheduled it for March 15, PTI reported. The court also rejected his counsel’s request that he be allocated a separate cell for himself in judicial custody.

The counsel had sought a separate cell for Karti Chidambaram while citing possible threats from “terrorists” lodged at Tihar jail during P Chidambaram’s stint as home minister.

The Delhi court ordered the jail authorities to ensure that adequate security is provided to Karti Chidambaram until March 24. “He [Karti Chidambaram] cannot be treated different from other accused persons and cannot be allowed to be kept in separate prison,” the court said.

In May 2017, the Enforcement Directorate had filed a money laundering case against Karti Chidambaram, INX Media and its directors Indrani Mukerjea and Peter Mukerjea. The two are currently in jail for the murder of Sheena Bora, Indrani Mukerjea’s daughter. Chidambaram’s company allegedly received Rs 10 lakh from INX Media – which had received clearance from the Foreign Exchange Promotion Board for Rs 4 crore in foreign funding, when in fact it had got Rs 305 crore in 2007. P Chidambaram was the finance minister in the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at that time.

The money was paid to Karti Chidambaram in return for help to get away without facing any punitive action, the Enforcement Directorate had told the court. Karti Chidambaram has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in the INX Media case.