P Chidambaram's CBI remand extended till Aug 30

New Delhi: A CBI court on Monday extended the CBI custody of former Union finance minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram till August 30 in the INX Media case as Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said that "some documents and evidence" have emerged.

Mehta told the Special Central Bureau of Investigation judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar, whose court was packed during the remand hearing, that "some documents and evidence have emerged so that's why we need his custody to confront him with them".