Karti Chidambaram calls CBI crackdown a witch hunt

Sivagangai MP Karti P Chidambaram on Tuesday called the CBI crackdown against him on the Chinese Visa case a witch hunt and said that he was “not associated with the visa issue directly, indirectly, vicariously or even telepathically.”

Alleging that the central government was using its agencies again to “accuse me of a malicious and completely fabricated charge, ” Karti, who is returning from his fortnight-long overseas trip to Europe, said, “In the last 7 years, I have been raided six times, without cause or evidence by the central government’s agencies, which have sadly become a single party’s machinery to fulfill its political vendetta. Professionals associated with me are being targeted and harassed. Their lives have been wrecked and freedoms are taken away, just like mine have been these last many years.”

“My travel has been restricted and I have been made to do rounds of the courts even to visit my daughter at her university. I have full faith in the judiciary of our great country and trust the institution to stand by the truth, ” he added. “If this is not harassment, not a witch hunt, then what is?” he wondered, in a statement.

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