Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, May 28: The CBI questioned Lok Sabha MP Karti Chidambaram for the third day in a row on Saturday as part of its investigation into the alleged Rs 50-lakh bribery for the issuance of 263 project visas to Chinese workers involved in the construction of the Talwandi Sabo power project in 2011.
Karti appeared early in the morning at the CBI headquarters to face the investigative team. The interrogation is expected to last all day, with a lunch break, they said.
Since Thursday, the CBI has been interviewing Congress politician Karti Chidambaram in the 11-year-old case, which he has described as “totally fake” and the outcome of “political vendetta.”
His father, P Chidambaram, was the Union Home Minister at the time.
The CBI filed an FIR on May 14 against Karti and others, alleging that a top official of Vedanta group business Talwandi Sabo Power Ltd (TSPL) paid a Rs 50-lakh bribe to him and his close colleague S Bhaskararaman in exchange for the re-issuance of Project Visas for 263 Chinese workers.
TSPL was constructing a power plant in Punjab.
Project visas were a new form of visa launched in 2010 for the electricity and steel industries, with comprehensive instructions provided during the time of P Chidambaram as Union Home Minister. According to the FIR, there was no provision for re-issuing project visas.
In connection with the case, the agency has already detained S Bhaskararaman.
