The CBI on Friday questioned Lok Sabha MP Karti Chidambaram for nearly eight hours on the second consecutive day in connection with alleged bribery of Rs 50 lakh in the issuance of visas for 263 Chinese workers in 2011 when his father P Chidambaram was the Union Home Minister.
The Congress MP who arrived at the CBI headquarters in the morning was confronted with documents related to the case, officials said.
The CBI had registered a fresh FIR on May 14 against him and others on allegations of a bribe of Rs 50 lakh being paid to him and his close associate and Chartered Accountant S Bhaskararaman by a top executive of Vedanta Group company Talwandi Sabo Power Ltd. (TSPL), which was setting up a power plant in Punjab for re-issuance of project visas for 263 Chinese workers employed there, the CBI FIR said.