Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram was arrested on Wednesday night in a high-voltage sequence from his Delhi residence . Chidambaram was arrested by the CBI in connection with the INX Media case.
The dramatic chain of events started on Tuesday when Chidambaram went missing after his interim bail plea was rejected by the Delhi High Court. The CBI and the ED searched high and low for him, but to no avail. Late on Wednesday evening, the untraceable Chidambaram—flanked by Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Kapil Sibal—appeared at the Congress’s Delhi headquarters to make a statement to members of the press. The CBI rushed to the party office but he had already left. This culminated in officials scaling the wall of the ex-minister’s residence in Delhi to arrest him.
