On the sidelines of the farewell dinner for the then outgoing President, Pranab Mukherjee on July 22, 2017-- Arun Jaitley tipped Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar about the plan of his then ally Lalu Prasad to break Nitish's party Janata Dal (United) and possibly engineer his ouster.

Satish Sana Babu's statement had led to internal war between CBI which eventually forced the government to remove the then CBI Director Alok Verma and his deputy Rakesh Asthana.

Talwar has been charged with liaisoning to secure undue benefits for Emirates, Air Arabia and Qatar Airways at the cost of national carrier, Air India