New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation continues questioning Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's Principal Secretary Rajender Kumar for the third consecutive day on Thursday in a case of criminal misconduct.
The investigative agency had on Wednesday unearthed bank balance worth Rs 28 lakh during raids on Rajender Kumar, said sources, adding that the fixed deposits worth nearly Rs 1.66 crore were also found at premises of co-accused AK Duggal, former MD of ICSIL.
The CBI is building its case with the help of money recovered from Kumar and another co-accused and the financial transactions under scanner.
The Aam Admi Party has cried foul over raids and has accused the Centre of shielding Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA) scam. The party has called the CBI raids on Rajendra Kumar a facade.
The CBI has hit back saying AAP is spreading misinformation to obstruct the probe. The DDCA has also rubbished allegations of financial irregularities.
The CBI raids on the Delhi Secretariat have sparked an all-out war between the Delhi government and the Centre. Kejriwal claimed that the CBI kept reading files related to DDCA in his office and did not seize any files related to Kumar.
The agency had allegedly instead seized the file movement register of the Chief Minister's office from September 15 till December 15 and a copy of AAP Cabinet decision of June 11 according to Kejriwal.
The raids had taken place on Tuesday after the Anti-Corruption Branch registered a case of criminal misconduct against Kumar and other private people. Some Delhi government officials had taken voluntary retirement scheme and floated a software company and Rajender Kumar was allegedly favouring them from many years in getting them contract.
Kumar's office is situated on the same floor as Kejriwal's in the Delhi Secretariat. After the raid the CBI sealed the entire floor which saw the AAP launching a no holds barred attack on the Centre and CBI.
Raids were conducted at 14 other locations too including Kumar's residence where CBI have claimed to recover foreign currency worth Rs 3 lakh.
The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) had on December 9 questioned Rajendra Kumar in connection with alleged irregularities in conducting fitness tests for commercial vehicles. According to ACB sources, the queries mostly revolved around action taken by Kumar after the anti-corruption bureau submitted a report in 2013 in connection with the alleged irregularities, ACB sources said.
In 2013, Kumar, who is now Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, was the transport commissioner.
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