{"id":315726,"date":"2019-10-16T07:55:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T07:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315726"},"modified":"2019-10-16T07:55:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T07:55:24","slug":"inx-media-case-ed-arrests-p-chidambaram-after-questioning-at-tihar-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/inx-media-case-ed-arrests-p-chidambaram-after-questioning-at-tihar-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"INX Media Case: ED arrests P Chidambaram after questioning at Tihar Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-300232 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/chidambram.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/chidambram.jpg 552w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/chidambram-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/chidambram-436x420.jpg 436w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/>The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday arrested former Union finance minister P Chidambaram in Tihar Jail in the INX Media foreign funding case, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">ED sleuths reached Tihar Jail today morning to question the Congress leader after court on Tuesday allowed the central agency to interrogate Chidambaram in this case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The central agency will be moving court to seek Chidambaram&#8217;s fresh custody, officials said.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chidambaram\u2019s son Karti Chidambaram and wife Nalini Chidambaram were also seen in the Tihar jail premises this morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The former finance minister has spent over 50 days in CBI and judicial custody till now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The ED has filed a criminal case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to probe alleged irregularities in the grant of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approval to the INX Media group.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday arrested former Union finance minister P Chidambaram in Tihar Jail in the INX Media foreign funding case, officials said. ED sleuths reached Tihar Jail today morning to question the Congress leader after court on Tuesday allowed the central agency to interrogate Chidambaram in this case. The central agency will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":300232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[2423,746,1573],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315727,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315726\/revisions\/315727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}