New Delhi: Senior Congress Leader Palaniappan Chidambaram was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday from his residence at Jor Bagh. The CBI will probe P Chidambaram in connection with the INX Media case later today. Earlier, Chidambaram's son Karti Chidambaram called the arrest of his father 'political vendetta' and alleged that it was being done to divert attention from Article 370. The Congress party, including Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, have stood behind the former finance minister. 

 P Chidambaram, as then union home minister had participated in the inauguration of the new Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) headquarters in Delhi’s Lodhi Road area in 2011- the same building where he spent Wednesday night after being arrested by the Central probe agency.

The Congress leader, who served as Union Home Minister during November 2008 to July 2012 in the UPA government, was one of the key guests at the inauguration event of CBI headquarters, held on June 30, 2011, in the presence of then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Chidambaram, one of the key ministers during ten years of UPA regime, was taken to headquarters of the probe agency after CBI officials scaled the boundary walls of his residence in Jor Bagh on Wednesday night to arrest him in INX Media case.

CBI, which issued a lookout notice against Chidambaram, arrested him after he made a dramatic appearance at the Congress headquarters in Delhi and addressed a press conference in which he rejected the charges against him and his son in the INX Media case and said “lies” were being spread by “pathological liars.”