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'Will Fight Malicious, False Accusations': Karti Chidambaram On CBI Raids At His Premises

Earlier, on Wednesday, the Central Bureau of Investigation arrested S. Bhaskar Raman, who was the first accused named in the case.

New Delhi: Congress MP Karti Chidambaram on Tuesday criticisised the government for using its agencies to arrest him in connection with a Rs 50 lakh alleged bribery case in his latest social media post. According to the statement, Chidambaram wrote, "It does not intimidate me that the central government is once again using its agencies to accuse me of a malicious and completely fabricated charge. Previously, the agencies have gone after me based on the statement of an undertrial murder suspect." 

"Now, they are basing their bogus charges on the alleged actions of a deceased person, whom I have never met. I intend to continue to fight every one of their motivated attempts to target my father through me," he added.

Denying the allegation, Chidambaram further stated, "For what it's worth, however, I firmly state that I am not associated with this visa issue directly, indirectly, vicariously or even telepathically! The allegations against me by the CBI are ludicrous, to say the least. I categorically deny all of them."

"Further, I know no person who has the authority to issue such visas. I have also never known the person (now deceased) whose alleged action triggers this charge. He has never been examined by the CBI, and now, never can be. -In the last 7 years, I've been raided 6 times, without cause or evidence by the central government's agencies, which have sadly become a single party's machinery to fulfil its political vendetta," he added.

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Meanwhile, the Central Bureau of Investigation has summoned Karti Chidambaram to appear by 11 am.

The bribery incident is reported to have taken place in 2011 when his father P Chidambaram was the Union home minister.

Earlier, on Wednesday, the Central Bureau of Investigation arrested S. Bhaskar Raman, who was the first accused named in the case.

Bhaskar Raman, a close aid of Karti Chidambaram, was arrested in Chennai after being questioned by investigators of the CBI’s Economic Offences Wing in New Delhi.

It is to be noted that the central agency has accused Raman of accepting ₹50 lakh bribe for facilitating the re-use of Project Visas, for Chinese workers who were deployed in the construction of a 1980 MW thermal power plant, at Mansa in Punjab in 2011.

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