INX Media case: Indrani Mukerjea calls Chidambaram’s arrest ‘good news’

Former Union finance minister P Chidambaram’s arrest in the INX Media corruption and money laundering case is “good news”, Indrani Mukerjea, the prime accused in the Sheena Bora killing case, said on Thursday.

Chidambaram was arrested by the CBI on August 21 for alleged corruption in Rs 305 crore clearance given to the INX Media group when he was the finance minister.

The group, once promoted by Indrani Mukerjea and her husband Peter Mukerjea, both in jail in the case of killing the former’s daughter Sheena Bora, had allegedly made payments to a firm linked to the former finance minister’s son Karti Chidambaram, the CBI earlier claimed.