Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday released pictures of documents which he claims to have been seized by the Central Bureau of Investigation, saying they have "no relation to the allegations being probed."
The CBI raid on the secretariat of Mr. Kejriwal on Tuesday triggered a political storm, with a united opposition accusing the Narendra Modi government of political vendetta and using the CBI. Following the raid, the Delhi CM was locked out of his office for the day.
The Chief Minister had alleged that the real purpose of the CBI raid in his office was to spirit away a file in which Mr. Jaitley was the central figure in a scam pertaining to the DDCA. > More...
Mr. Jaitley headed the DDCA for 14 years and was subsequently its patron-in-chief till December 2014.
Mr. Jaitley had dismissed the allegations against him as “rubbish“.
2.53 pm: The CBI on Wednesday justified its raid on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s office saying the list of all the files seized will be placed before the court even as it continued questioning Mr. Kejriwals’s Principal Secretary in a corruption case.
2.38 pm:CBI has become Gujarat Bureau of Investigation under Modi: Trinamool
The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday batted for Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the Lok Sabha and hit out at the government over the CBI raids on his principal secretary’s office alleging that the agency had become Gujarat Bureau of Investigation (GBI) under the Narendra Modi government. > More...
12:05 pm: The CBI says it has registered a case against Mr. Kumar and others on allegations against the officer that he abused his official position by “favouring a particular firm in the last few years in getting tenders from Delhi government departments.”
Mr. Kumar has been booked under 120-B of the IPC (criminal conspiracy), and 13(2), 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act (Criminal conspiracy, criminal misconduct etc) for allegedly favouring a private company in five contracts worth Rs. 9.5 crore during 2007-14. > More...
11:42 am: BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha has raised questions over the timing of the CBI raid on the office of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Secretary and wondered who “advised” for the searches. He disapproved of Mr. Kejriwal’s language to attack Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was called a “psychopath” and “coward” following yesterday’s raid.
“In politics, timing is everything. This was definitely not the right time for the raid. Hope wish & pray that this does not boomerang on us,” the actor-turned-politician tweeted.
10:43 am:Who is Rajendra Kumar?
Considered a close confidant of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, 49-year-old Rajendra Kumar is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) official belonging to the 1989 batch of the Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre. And this isn’t his first tryst with controversy. > More...
10:40 am: According to indications emerging from the CBI, the agency may seek custodial interrogation of the accused IAS official Rajender Kumar. > More...
10:24 am: The CBI questions Rajendra Kumar, Principal Secretary to the Delhi CM at its headquarters in connection with an alleged corruption case.
10:20 am: Kejriwal accuses Finance Minister Arun Jaitley of lying in Parliament, asking "why is Jaitley ji so scared of DDCA probe? What is his role in DDCA scam?"
10:15 am: In a Twitter post, Mr. Kejriwal said: "CBI kept reading DDCA file in my office. They would have seized it. But after my media briefing, they left it. Not clear if they took a copy."
