The Supreme Court today refused urgent listing of Congress leader P Chidambaram’s petition seeking protection from arrest in the INX Media scam cases.

A bench comprising Justices N V Ramana, M Shantanagoudar and Ajay Rastogi said that without listing of the petition, they cannot hear the matter. The bench said this when senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Chidambaram, repeatedly asked for hearing the matter today itself.

The bench told him that there were some defects in the petition and the Registry has informed about it. The top court said, the defects in the petition were removed just now and it cannot be listed for hearing today itself.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta opposed the plea of Chidambaram for hearing the matter on oral mentioning saying that the papers are not with him.

While Sibal was repeatedly insisting for hearing the matter, the bench told him that they have already directed the matter to be placed before CJI.

At the end of the hearing, Sibal said that Chidambaram was ready to give an undertaking that he will not run away but the bench did not consider the submission and concluded the brief hearing.