{"id":83999,"date":"2017-05-16T09:40:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T04:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=83999"},"modified":"2017-05-16T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T04:10:55","slug":"cbi-raids-on-chidambaram-and-karti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/cbi-raids-on-chidambaram-and-karti\/","title":{"rendered":"CBI raids on Chidambaram and Karti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The home of former union minister P Chidambaram&#8217;s son Karti Chidambaram in Chennai is among more than a dozen places raided by the CBI this morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Raids are on at 14 places in Chennai. Sources say the searches are linked to the allegation that Karti Chidambaram&#8217;s company facilitated clearances for foreign investment to a media company in 2008 for kickbacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84000 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/karti-chidambaram_650x400_61456830926.jpg\" alt=\"CBI raids on Chidambaram and Karti\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Chidambaram, one of the top leaders of the Congress, was Finance Minister in the Manmohan Singh government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The attempt is to grab headlines and create a perception. Why no action for three years?&#8221; said Congress spokesperson Tom Vadakkan, accusing the government of targeting Mr Chidambaram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The home of former union minister P Chidambaram&#8217;s son Karti Chidambaram in Chennai is among more than a dozen places raided by the CBI this morning. Raids are on at 14 places in Chennai. Sources say the searches are linked to the allegation that Karti Chidambaram&#8217;s company facilitated clearances for foreign investment to a media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[43320,825,450,306,12502,43321,2339,13682,7247,3047,8903,43319,11751,43322],"class_list":["post-83999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-14-places","tag-cbi","tag-chennai","tag-congress","tag-finance-minister","tag-foreign-investment","tag-government","tag-karti-chidambaram","tag-manmohan-singh","tag-minister","tag-p-chidambaram","tag-raid","tag-son","tag-tom-vadakkan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/478792-karti.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}