Finance minister Arun Jaitley launched a sharp attack on Congress over the Ishrat Jahan case, accusing it of "seriously compromising" national security for "overt political reasons".Jaitley, who is in New York on a seven-day official tour, however did not say if a fresh probe may be ordered in the case but remarked that he was "not in touch with what is happening at home."


"National security was seriously compromised and all evidence now seem to be suggesting that this was done for overt political reasons," he told ET Now.


His comments were aimed at the fresh controversy over reports suggesting former home minister P Chidambaram had cleared an affidavit in 2009 which described college student Ishrat Jahan as a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist involved in a plot to assassinate the then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi.