New Delhi, Sep 9 (UNI) Senior Congress leader and former union minister P Chidambaram, who is in Tihar Jail in connection with the INX Media case, on Monday said he had no answer as to why none of the officers who had recommended granting Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance to the INX Media group for receiving overseas funds of Rs 305 crore in 2007 were arrested and that why he was the only one to be arrested. In a tweet put out on his behalf by his family, Chidambaram, however, said he did not want any of the officers to be arrested. In the series of tweets, Chidambaram said,”I have requested my family to put on my behalf the following. “People have asked me ‘If the dozen officers who processed and recommended the case to you have not been arrested, why have you been arrested? Only because you have put the last signature?’ I have no answer.” He, however, added that he does not want any of the officers to be arrested. “No officer has done anything wrong. I do not want anyone to be arrested,” he said.Chidambaram was arrested by the CBI on August 21 on charges of corruption. He was remanded to judicial custody till September 19 by a Delhi special court.
Have no answer on why only I was arrested: Chidambaram
