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Chidambram finally arrested by CBI after two days of unprecedented drama
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The former finance minister P. Chidambaram was finally arrested last evening from his Jor Bagh House in New Delhi. All attempts to block the CBI had failed and after a 55 minutes drama, Chidambaram was finally arrested. He is to be grilled by the Economic Offences Wing. He has been taken to the CBI headquarter in New Delhi for interrogation.
Former finance minister P. Chidambaram has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the INX media case which happened during his tenure as the union finance minister. The former minister’s son was consulting for INX media and had used his father’s influence, who was the finance minister of the country at that point of time to favor the company. It is alleged that about 7 lakh dollars were illegally transferred into his son’s account.
This is an economic office of grave nature. The proprietor of the INX media Peter Mukerjee is already in jail on murder charges. Mr. Chidambaram had filed two anticipatory bail applications in Delhi high court which was turned down yesterday. Yesterday evening, the CBI and ED officers went to the former’s residence to arrest him, who had evaded them for some time. It was learned that he had been busy with a senior advocate and Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi.
Mr. Singhvi had filed a petition on behalf of Chidambaran in Supreme Court. After not getting any relief from Justice Ramanna’s bench in Supreme Court, the CBI arrested him from his Jor Bagh residence on Wednesday evening. Mr. Chidambaran dramatically appeared at AICC headquarter prior to his arrest and addressed media at 8.19 PM. Later on, he came to his Jor Bagh residence from where he was arrested. The CBI officer’s had to climb the gates of his Jor Bagh house to arrest the former minister. The former finance minister was taken for a medical check-up as per protocol from the CBI headquarters where he had been taken after his arrest.
Earlier while rejecting the anticipatory bail of P. Chidambaram yesterday the Delhi high court said that it seems that the former finance minister was the kingpin in the entire episode and the economic offense is of grave nature. The supreme court in its order said that keeping in view the grave nature of the case the nonarrest bail can not be given. It may be recalled that a case of money laundering was registered against the former finance minister in 2018 and his arrest has finally materialized on Wednesday evening.
During his press conference at the AICC headquarter prior to his arrest the coterie of senior Congress leaders and senior advocates Kapil Sibal, Abhishekh Manu Singhvi, Salman Khurshid, Ghulam Nabi Azad, etc were present to provide Chidambaram moral support.
Karti had misused his father’s power when he was a minister. After his father’s arrest, Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram addressed the media outside his Jor Bagh house and accused the ruling party of misusing powers and arresting his father for political vendetta. Karti went on repeating his lines and latched on to the vendetta cry. On the one hand, the Chidambaram was evading CBI from questioning him, and now they are stating it is a vendetta.
The hearing in Supreme Court will resume tomorrow and Chidambaram’s army of senior advocates including Kapil Sibal and Abhishek Manu Singhvi will appear on his behalf. They will do everything possible to get their tainted colleague out on bail.
Congress staged protests outside the AICC’s 24 Akbar Road headquarter against Chidambaram’s arrest. Corruption is corruption, Congress should not turn it into a revolution and should stop pro-corruption protests.
However, hopefully, justice will prevail and the guilty he will be put behind bars.
In the meanwhile, Congress goes after the judiciary and has slammed the supreme court apart from off course attacking the government. Congress has a history of attacking the judiciary as well as the governmental agencies.
Chidambaram had said that law shall take its own course. Now the law is taking its own course. They went to the court and their plea was rejected. CBI just wanted to talk to Chidambaram and had given due notice, but Chidambaram had been running to pillar to post, even his own party did not know where he was. If he has done no harm, then he has nothing to fear. Nobody is above law. As such, Chidambaram has an army of lawyers to save him.
So far, Congress has only one line of defense, that it is just political vendetta. Meanwhile, it is has learned that Congress and the opposition support and give a platform to the fake news icon, Shehla Rashid, of the Tukde Tukde Gang, who was earlier exposed by the army. She had admitted that she has no evidence. No facts, high drama.
Congress and Corruption have become synonymous. As per sources, CBI has stated that Chidambaram answers are evasive and he not cooperating with CBI. The CBI might seek remand as there was an enormity of evidence and paucity of time in interrogating him.
