The prevalent perception in political circles is that the arrest of former finance minister P. Chidambaram on August 21 is, perhaps, intertwined with the fatal illness and death of another former finance minister, Arun Jaitley, who died on August 24. It has been speculated that the state agencies—on Chidambaram’s trail since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first term—moved in for the kill the moment it became clear that Jaitley could no longer make any mortal intervention on behalf of anyone. Jaitley, if one is to believe the buzzing bees, was the one who kept the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from laying into him.