Principal Secretary to Delhi Chief Minister, Rajendra Kumar who has been accused for criminal conspiracy and has a case registered against him by the CBI reached the investigating agency’s headquarters here today morning for questioning.
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Rajendra Kumar, a principal secretary with the Delhi government, is in the midst of a political storm that threatens to embroil even Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Yesterday, the Aam Aadmi Party had posed five questions to the minister, saying that they would continue to query him on the alleged corruption in the DDCA.
This has given Jaitley a chance to hit back, saying the allegations are a propaganda technique of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to deflect attention when he himself is in the dock.
Addressing the mediapersons here, CBI Chief Information Officer Devpreet Singh said, “CBI neither prevented, nor disallowed any person in their movement to the various offices in Delhi Secretariat, including the CM’s office, except the office of his Secretary”.
Following the CBI raids, Kejriwal had slammed the Centre for targeting him and said that the investigation against Kumar was just an excuse.
As opposition attacked the Centre over the CBI action, the agency went on an overdrive to convey that the raids were being undertaken after following a due a process of law which included getting a search warrant from the competent court.
“Jaitley was the DDCA President for many years and I had set up a committee to probe all the corruption that has taken place during his tenure”.
The glum faces at the press conference by AAP’s B-Team on the so called DDCA scam said it all as Arvind Kejriwal kept away and Manish Sisodia was nowhere to be seen.
AAP leader Sanjay Singh said that although the party has now raised questions based on evidence, no answer has been given to them. For CBI it would be handy to remember that in a federal set-up its good to keep the State Government apprised of CBI’s move, especially in a case where the head of the state in not the subject of investigation.
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Kejriwal insisted that the CBI officials had searched his room too and read the file related to the probe report on the DDCA he had ordered.
