Via PTI
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Karti Chidamabaram on Friday wrote to Lok Speaker Speaker Om Birla alleging that all over a raid CBI officials seized “extremely confidential” private notes and papers concerning the Parliamentary Status Committee on Knowledge and Generation of which he’s a member, and sought redressal for what he stated used to be a “breach of his parliamentary privilege”.
In a letter to Birla, Karti Chidambaram additionally stated that over the process the previous few years, his circle of relatives and he himself have turn into objectives of a “relentless marketing campaign by way of the prevailing executive and its investigating businesses that are seeking to silence our voices of dissent by way of foisting one pretend case after any other”.
Such “focused intimidation” of a member of the Space quantities to a breach of privilege, the MP from Tamil Nadu’s Sivaganga constituency stated.
Karti Chidambaram’s letter to Birla comes amid his wondering by way of the CBI.
He gave the impression sooner than the CBI for the second one day on Friday to respond to queries associated with allegations of bribe in issuance of visas to 263 Chinese language employees in 2011 when his father P Chidambaram used to be the house minister, officers stated.
Previous this month, CBI groups had performed coordinated seek operations at 10 places in a couple of towns within the nation, together with apartments of the Chidambarams in Chennai and Delhi.
“I’m writing to you currently as a result of I’ve turn into the sufferer of a grossly unlawful and patently unconstitutional motion,” Karti Chidambaram stated in his letter to Birla.
“The Central Bureau of Investigation within the garb of undertaking an investigation into an 11-year-old determination of the Executive by which I’ve completely no involvement raided my place of abode in Delhi,” he stated.
For the duration of this so-called raid, positive officials of the CBI seized my “extremely confidential and delicate private notes and papers” concerning the Parliamentary Status Committee for Knowledge and Generation, Karti Chidambaram alleged.
“Shockingly, even my draft notes and questions which I had meant to invite witnesses summoned to the Committee, had been additionally seized,” he alleged.
He claimed that his handwritten notes concerning the depositions made to the Committee by way of witnesses had been additionally seized for causes very best identified to the Company.
Karti Chidambaram alleged that those movements by way of the CBI, in as far as they relate to “interference with my tasks as a Parliamentarian, quantity to a right away attack upon democratic rules on which our Parliament is based”.
“I, subsequently, urge you to take instant cognizance of this factor, which is a brazen breach of my Parliamentary privilege,” he stated within the letter.
