CBI raid: Court order vindicates our stand, says Manish Sisodia

A court has dismissed a criminal complaint against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal alleging he asked voters to take bribes from other parties but vote for his AAP in elections.

A Special Court on Wednesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to return some of the documents that they had seized during a raid on the office of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s principal secretary in December, The Indian Express reported.

It said the office functioning was “greatly hampered, paralysed and dislocated” after the CBI raid at the Delhi secretariat on December 15 in connection with the DDCA case. The judge said if the CBI is not able to disclose the reason why they want to retain these documents, then they have no right to keep them.

Advocate Rahul Mehra, who represented Delhi government, had rebutted the CBI’s claim and said original documents were seized “indiscriminately” by the agency during the raid. However, the chief minister told the cops to leave her.

“We have been telling this for long that the raid was carried out at the office of the Chief Minister in the name of Rajendra Kumar and it has been well observed by the court also”, he added. Earlier, CBI came under a scathing attack from the city court which directed it to return documents sought by the Delhi government seized during recent raids on the office of Kejriwal’s principal secretary Rajendra Kumar, saying the agency “cannot be clothed with divine powers” to flout its own rules.