After taking on the railway ministry for rendering scores of squatters homeless, all hell broke loose on Tuesday morning when the CBI raided the office of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s principal secretary Rajender Kumar.
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Kumar has been booked under sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act. CBI spokesperson Devpreet Singh rebutted the charge, clarifying that the office of the Chief Minister was neither searched nor sealed.
The CBI conducted a raid on Tuesday at the office of Rajendra Kumar, Kejriwal’s principal secretary.
Mr Kejriwal through his tweets also suggested that Mr Jaitley was anxious about the Delhi government’s probe into the functioning of the DDCA. “Jaitley reacted, “(If) They can tell me what is the specific issue, I can answer it. I can’t answer a vague allegation without any basis”.
He also called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “coward and a psychopath” for allegedly having the raids cnducted.
Carrying out probe in the affair of the DDCA falls under the jurisdiction of the Central government, he said.
“He takes the oath as the chief minister of the union territory of Delhi, but does not even know the kind of language he has to use for an esteemed office – a constitutional post like the prime minister of India”, Kohli said.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), however, hit back at Kejriwal for his unwarranted criticism of Prime Minister Modi following the CBI raid and alleged that a “nervous” Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo is demeaning the PMO with his baseless allegation. After alleging that the CBI had raided his office for a file linked to corruption in the Delhi cricket body that Jaitley headed in the past, tweeted today that the investigators read the file but “left it” after his media briefing. The third floor also houses Arvind Kejriwal’s office. It recovered Rs 2.4 lakh and another Rs 3 lakh in foreign currencies from Kumar’s home.
The documents pertaining to fixed deposits worth Rs 1.66 crore were allegedly found from A K Duggal, former MD, ICSIL, CBI sources claimed.
The IAS officer arrived at the CBI building at around 9.40 AM for the questioning in connection with the case registered against him and six others on December 14.
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“Both the BJP and the AAP are now playing blame games over the CBI raid But my question is over the timing of this entire incident”.
