Delhi CM ex-secretary Rajendra Kumar claims CBI is misusing power

New Delhi: Rajendra Kumar, the former principal secretary of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, has accused the CBI of “misusing” CrPC provisions and said that he is being probed despite having filed a chargesheet.

In a blog, the suspended IAS officer said that while Section 173(8) of the Criminal Procedure Code permits further investigation after the filing of chargesheet, it is intended to be used when “entirely new evidence comes.”

“And that too never simultaneously when chargesheet has just been filed under Section 173(2),” Mr Kumar said. The CBI had filed charge sheet against him in connection with a case of alleged corruption in December last year.

“The CBI is misusing the provisions of Criminal Procedure Code to continue to put pressure on people, whom they have implicated along with me in the case. Else, they would have filed the chargesheet only after completing the investigation and after gathering all the evidence required.”

“It is clear that they understand that the charge sheet filed is going to fail and therefore, the only way to continue to threaten the people is to misuse the provisions of Criminal Procedure Code,” Mr Kumar, who had earlier expressed his desire to enter politics, said.

In the chargesheet, it has been alleged that the accused persons had entered into a criminal conspiracy and caused a loss of Rs 12 crore to the Delhi government in award of contracts between 2007 and 2015.

The 1989-batch IAS officer has been charged with alleged criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery under Indian Penal Code besides provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act along with eight others and Endeavour Systems Private Limited, the CBI had said.