Kejriwal fires fresh salvo, claims CBI ordered to target Opposition

Recounting the sequence of events, J.S. Rawat, the personal secretary to Rajendra, has said the CBI officers had sealed the staircase leading to the third floor where the chief minister’s office is located.

“CBI seizures during the searches at all 14 places, were in the presence of independent witnesses, as per the procedures laid down by the law”.

Rallying round the Union Finance Minister, the BJP asserted that it “resolutely stands behind” Arun Jaitley who has an “impeccable” political record and dismissed AAP’s “campaign” against him as “blasphemous and preposterous”. The Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) under the finance ministry invested the complaint filed by Jaitely’s party colleague Kirti Azad and submitted a report on 21 March 2013.

Kejriwal accused Finance Minister Arun Jaitley of running away from investigation in the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) scam.

Central Bureau of Investigation spokesperson Devpreet Singh on Wednesday said that CBI has not seized any material irrelevant to the probe against the Delhi chief minister’s principal secretary Rajendra Kumar during a raid at the Delhi secretariat.

“While working as director education, Rajendra associated with Sandeep and Dinesh”, the CBI official said. The investigating agency has found documents pertaining to fixed deposits worth Rs 1.66 crore allegedly found from AK Duggal, former MD, ICSIL.

The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) had on December 9 questioned Rajender Kumar in connection with alleged irregularities in conducting fitness tests for commercial vehicles.

CBI should be free and need not take any permission, he added.

They overlooked the fact that Mr. Jaitley was not involved in day to day management of DDCA a fact pointed out by the agency that looked into the allegations. “Moreover, he is trying to make it a Centre and state issue which it is not”, Naidu told the media here.

Congress and AAP are demanding Jaitley’s resignation over alleged “gross financial irregularities” in Delhi’s cricket body DDCA when he headed it from 1999 to 2013.

“Now, that the heat and dust of the search of an IAS officer’s room has settled down, it is clear that the search had nothing to do with either the chief minister or his room”. It was alleged that the two people allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs.2.2 lakh from the contractor whose firm is providing security guards and peons to the welfare department. They are owned by professionals and managed by competent Board of Directors.