Chidambaram, accompanied by the members of the investigation team, was brought to the CBI headquarters at around 10 Wednesday night.
Former
Union finance minister P
Chidambaram spent a quiet night in the CBI guest house on the
ground floor of the agency headquarters after his dramatic arrest
from his posh residence in the INX media corruption case, officials
said on Thursday.
Chidambaram,
73, was kept in the suite 5 of the guest house, they said.
It
is normal for the agency to keep high security arrested accused in
the guest house to ensure proper security and monitoring, the
officials said.
Chidambaram,
as then union home minister had participated in the inauguration of
the new CBI headquarters in Delhi's Lodhi Road area in 2011 — the
same building where he spent Wednesday night after being arrested by
the Central probe agency.
The
Congress leader, who served as Union Home Minister during November
2008 to July 2012 in the UPA government, was one of the key guests at
the inauguration event of CBI headquarters, held on June 30, 2011, in
the presence of then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Chidambaram,
accompanied by the members of the investigation team, was brought to
the CBI headquarters at around 10 Wednesday night, they said.
After
a thorough medical check-up by a doctor from the Ram Manohar Lohia
Hospital, he was taken to the room where he spent a quiet night, the
officials said.
Mostly,
they said, he remained silent except answering a few queries as and
when questioned by the CBI officers.
His
questioning will start at around 10 Thursday morning under DySP R
Parthasarthy who is leading the probe in the alleged corruption in Rs
305 crore clearance given to INX
media when he was the Union finance minister, the officials said.
The
firm once promoted by Peter and Indrani Mukerjea, both in jail for
murdering latter's daughter Sheena Bora, had allegedly made payments
to a firm linked to finance minister's son
P
Chidambaram has strongly denied the allegations, saying the payments
were for consultancy and his son was in no way associated with that
company., the CBI has said in the FIR.
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