Karti sent to one-day CBI custody in INX Media case

Karti was taken into custody by a team of CBI officers on his return from the United Kingdom and produced before a Delhi court

Karti Chidambaram, son of Congress leader and former Union finance minister P Chidambaram, was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) at the Chennai airport on Wednesday morning in connection with investigations into the INX Media case.

Karti, 46, was taken into custody by a team of CBI officers on his return from the United Kingdom and produced before a Delhi court, which sent him to CBI custody for one day. The agency had sought 15-day remand for the custodial interrogation of Karti. 

"This whole exercise is to politically target my father," Karti wrote on the arrest memo before