Former Finance Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram has been summoned by the CBI for questioning on June 6 in connection with the INX media case.

Earlier on May 31st, the Delhi High Court had granted interim protection to Chidambaram in the case.

The senior Congress leader got interim protection from arrest by CBI till July 3 in the INX Media Case.

The summon to Chidambaram comes days after the probe agency arrested his son, Karti Chidambaram for alleged irregularities in the INX Media case.

Karti Chidambaram was arrested by the CBI at Chennai Airport in connection with its probe in the INX media case.

The 46-year-old Karti was placed under arrest by a CBI team on his return from London.

The CBI had registered an FIR on May 15 last year against alleged irregularities in the FIPB clearance to INX Media for receiving overseas funds to the tune of Rs 305 crore in 2007 when Chidambaram was the Union finance minister. It is alleged that Karti had received funds to the tune of Rs 10 lakh in the case, they said.

The CBI alleged Karti also received money from INX media to scuttle a tax probe. The firm was owned at the time by Peter and Indrani Mukerjea, who are currently in jail on charges of murdering Indrani's daughter Sheena Bora.The Enforcement Directorate has also registered a money laundering case.

The CBI and the ED had carried out a series of raids on the houses and offices owned by the Chidambarams. Karti Chidambaram was questioned several times by the ED.

A lookout notice, which prevents a passenger from travelling abroad, was issued against him as the agencies suspected that he would try to close foreign accounts where he had parked the money from the kickbacks. In November, the Supreme Court allowed Karti Chidambaram to go to the UK for his daughter's admission in the Cambridge University.