Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s former Principal Secretary Rajendra Kumar, in another blog post, has slammed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for misusing its powers. Mr. Kumar wrote that the CBI filed a chargesheet against him and presented it in the High Court while the investigation was still ongoing.
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Mr. Kumar, an IAS officer, was chargesheeted by the CBI in a graft case in December last year. In January, Mr. Kumar, in a blog post, had blamed former Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung for his arrest in the graft case and implicating him in cases for not ‘following his instructions’.
In his latest blog post, Mr. Kumar said: “It is also clear from the submissions of the CBI that even after 14 months of investigation and beating up dozens of people, they still could not trace the flow of funds. As is well known, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of the CBI dedicated the largest set of personnel to this case. Even after doing so, and even after 14 months of committing brutality, they could not find any flow of fund, just because there is none.”
‘Misusing CrPC’
The former Principal Secretary said that the CBI has been looking for the money but “none exists. They know it very well and therefore just to save their face, they are misusing the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and stating that they’re still investigating. To put it another way, when they could not find any money trail, what was the point of even filing the chargesheet. Legally, they were required to close the case,” Mr. Kumar said.
“The CBI is misusing the CrPC to continue to put pressure on people, whom they have implicated along with me in the case. It is clear that they understand that the chargesheet filed is going to fail and therefore, the only way to continue to threaten the people is to misuse CrPC provisions,” Mr. Kumar concluded.
