The CBI on Friday told a city court that the raid at the office of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s principal secretary Rajendra Kumar was not aimed at the Delhi government, but against an alleged cor
The CBI on Friday told a city court that the raid at the office of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s principal secretary Rajendra Kumar was not aimed at the Delhi government, but against an alleged corrupt officer who had misused his official position.
The agency told special judge A.K. Jain that the case was lodged against an alleged corrupt officer not against the Delhi government. It claimed that the bureaucrat had misused official position to favour a particular company and there were forgery aspects in the case too. The CBI made the submission as it opposed the petition filed by the Delhi government seeking release of documents seized during the CBI raid on December 15. Senior public prosecutor S.C. Sharma said the documents were relevant for the ongoing probe by the CBI and alleged that the accused in the case was a senior bureaucrat who had possessed the seized documents, and in all likelihood, he could have tampered with them.
“The case was lodged by the CBI on source information and not on a complaint, after which search warrant was issued by the court. Seizure of only the relevant documents were done during the raid. Everything was done in accordance with the law,” he added.
The court reserved its order for January 20 on the plea by the government. During the hearing, the judge asked the CBI whether it can seize any documents under the cover of investigation.
Responding to the query, the prosecutor said, “The case is at the stage of investigation but still the CBI can place the case diary before the court which will show the relevance of the documents seized during the raid.” Advocate Rahul Mehra, who appeared for the Delhi government, rebutted the CBI claim and said that original documents were seized “indiscriminately.”
