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“The vindictive, selective and malicious manner in which former Finance Minister & Home Minister, Shri P Chidambaram has been persecuted and prosecuted is nothing short of a brazen personal and political vendetta,” Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said at a media briefing at the party headquarters.

Former Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigations agency on Wednesday evening amid high drama outside his residence in South Delhi. His supporters shouted slogans and the CBI officials had to face harsh time while making an attempt to get inside the house. He has now been taken into the CBI custody for questioning.

Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday targeted Congress party over P Chidambaram not surrendering before the CBI in a corruption case against him. They said the latter must be ashamed of its leader who has turned into an absconder after Delhi High Court rejected his anticipatory bail plea in the matter.

Rahul Gandhi tagged the development as "disgraceful misuse of power", his sister Priyanka Gandhi said the former minister was being "shamefully hunted down".

The Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation have issued lookout notice for P Chidambaram, who has been absconding since Delhi High Court rejected his anticipatory bail plea.

"An extremely qualified and respected member of the Rajya Sabha, @PChidambaram_IN ji has served our nation with loyalty for decades including as Finance Minister & Home Minister," Priyanka Gandhi said in a two-part tweet.

P Chidambaram, immediately knocked the doors of Supreme Court. The apex body will hear him on Wednesday. Officials of the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) visited his residence to arrest him but he was not available there.

Schools and government offices will reopen in Kashmir on Monday (August 19), after the local administration took stock of the ground situation in the state, reported NDTV.

"Restrictions imposed in Jammu have been completely removed. They will continue in some places of Kashmir for sometime," said Munir Khan, one of the senior-most officers of Jammu and Kashmir Police, at a press conference in Srinagar.

One day after the Supreme Court cancelled RERA registration of Amrapali Group on charges of diverting buyers money to other businesses, the forensic auditors told the apex court that cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his wife Sakshi Dhoni's companies were used by Amrapali to divert the homebuyers' money, and that money should also be recovered from them.