Centre shouldn’t use CBI to terrorise Kejri: Sisodia

Centre shouldn’t use CBI to terrorise Kejri: Sisodia

FPJ BureauUpdated: Friday, May 31, 2019, 08:00 PM IST
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New Delhi : The BJP-led Central government should stop trying to terrorise Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by conducting CBI searches at his office, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Tuesday.

Sisodia asked why did the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) not raid the offices of the departments where bureaucrat Rajendra Kumar had served earlier where corruption allegedly took place.

He said the Delhi government will take action against Rajendra Kumar, who is principal secretary to the chief minister, if any evidence is found.

“What does it mean, conducting raid in the Delhi CM’s office, and not the other departments where Rajendra Kumar had served in 2007, the year in which corruption took place according to the CBI?” Sisodia said.

He said the chief minister should have been informed if there was any suspicion against any Delhi government bureaucrat.

“The Centre can threaten other state governments by conducting CBI raids, but let me tell you that the Centre should stop trying to terrorise the Delhi government and its chief minister Kejriwal,” Sisodia said.

“If they really had any suspicion over any Delhi government  bureaucrat, then they should have informed Kejriwal first and then we would have accordingly cooperated,” Sisodia told reporters outside his residence in central Delhi. The Delhi government also alleged that the Centre was using the Central Bureau of Investigation the same way it was used by its predecessor, the Congress-led UPA government.

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