NEW DELHI – Authorities in India have arrested a Congress leader and former finance minister on corruption charges.
High drama unfolded in New Delhi late Wednesday as officers from India’s equivalent of the FBI scaled the walls of Palaniappan Chidambaram’s home to arrest him, local media reported.
Earlier in the day, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had alerted airports to prevent P. Chidambaram, finance minister from 2004-2008 and again from 2012-2014, from leaving the country.
Chidambaram, 73, earlier this week failed to secure bail and had not been seen since Tuesday, until he showed up at the headquarters of the opposition Congress party on Wednesday to proclaim his innocence.
At a news conference, he called his accusers “pathological liars”, the Press Trust of India reported.
Chidambaram has been charged in relation to alleged kickbacks and money laundering involving a media company when he was finance minister under former premier Manmohan Singh.
Meanwhile, the son of former finance and home minister said the arrest of his father is a plot of the BJP government to divert attention from the crucial issue of revoking special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/world/bjp-govt-revoked-kashmirs-special-status-because-it-is-muslim-dominated-says-chidambaram/
