Indrani calls PC’s arrest as ‘good news’

Date :30-Aug-2019

MUMBAI : FORMER Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s arrest in the INX Media corruption and money laundering case is “good news”, Indrani Mukerjea, the prime accused in the Sheena Bora killing case, said on Thursday. Chidambaram was arrested by the CBI on August 21 for alleged corruption in Rs 305 crore clearance given to the INX Media group when he was the Finance Minister.

The group, once promoted by Indrani Mukerjea and her husband Peter Mukerjea, both in jail in the case of killing the former’s daughter Sheena Bora, had allegedly made payments to a firm linked to the former finance minister’s son Karti Chidambaram, the CBI earlier claimed. “His (Chidambaram) arrest is good news. He is now cornered from all sides,” Indrani Mukerjea told reporters when she was produced before a special CBI court here to attend the trial proceedings in the Sheena Bora case.

She further said the bail granted to Karti Chidambaram, who is also an accused in the INX Media case, should be cancelled. In her statement, Mukerjea said she and her husband had met P Chidambaram at his office in Delhi’s North Block (when he was the finance minister). She alleged that the former Union minister had asked her to help his son in his business and make overseas remittances in lieu of granting Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approval to INX Media.