In a scathing blog post, Rajendra Kumar, former Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, has blamed former Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung for his arrest in a graft case and implicating him in cases for not “following his instructions”.
Mr. Kumar, who recently asked for a VRS, said that it was Mr. Jung who was responsible for his arrest by the CBI on July 4 and his 23 days in custody.
‘Education and reform’
“You spoke to a senior officer of the CBI and sought his help to educate me,” Mr. Kumar wrote, repeatedly using words like ‘education’ and ‘reform’ while referring to threats and intimidation.
Mr. Kumar said that Mr. Jung had asked him to look into the cases against one of the former Delhi University Vice-Chancellor.
The former Principal Secretary wrote that shortly after becoming the L-G, Mr. Jung sought the personal file of the DU V-C.
‘You were unhappy’
“After you saw the file, you called me again and asked me to find out the misconducts of that V-C. I concluded there were none. You were unhappy. I later found out that this V-C has been forced to proceed on a long leave. He could join back only a few days before his retirement”.
A 1989-batch IAS officer, Mr. Kumar was accused of abusing his official position in awarding Delhi government contracts to private firms during 2007-14, when the Congress ruled Delhi. He has denied the charges.
‘Friends in CBI’
The former Principal Secretary claimed that Mr. Jung sought ‘help’ from his ‘friends in the CBI to ‘educate’ him. “He (the CBI officer) was not wise and he politely excused himself. After sometime he retired. But your desire to help and reform me continued. You later met a top officer of (the Home Ministry) and a top officer of the CBI and stressed upon them the urgent national interest issue of helping and educating me. You have extraordinary oratory skills and they were convinced. Then my education started. People visited my house and my office and I was called many times to the country’s premier educational and transformational institution. Umpteen number of other people were also called for that education. Some were given special lessons,” Mr. Kumar said.
The Hindu tried reaching Mr. Jung for comment, but there was no response.
