Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Sunday accused the CBI of trying to destroy "confidential files" stored in his computer and implanting edited files to falsely implicate him in the liquor policy case.
Sisodia has accused the CBI of trying to falsely implicate him in the case even though he hasn't been chargesheeted as an accused. His statement comes a day after CBI sleuths visited the premises to collect documents in what was termed "CBI raids" by the AAP.
In a statement, he said that the whole exercise was an act of malice detailing how the CBI raided his office on a second Saturday (official holiday) and gave a handwritten notice to the Secretary to seize a computer from the conference room. “The probe agency trying to maliciously frame me, a seized computer without providing Hash Value. I have clear apprehension that the CBI has seized the computer to destroy the confidential documents, implant files in the CPU to falsely implicate me as my name is not in the CBI chargesheet.
In the absence of recording Hash Value during the seizure, CBI can change the record in the seized CPU as per its convenience to maliciously frame me. Despite having no material against me, CBI is still continuing with its fishing and roving inquiry in the matter even after the chargesheet has been filed. Seizure of the electronic evidence has lost its authenticity and integrity in the eyes of law,” reads the statement.
He said that on second Saturday his office was closed, when some CBI official telephonically informed his PS to come to the office and open the same.
When his PS reached the office at around 3 pm, he saw that a team of CBI officials was already present at the office. The CBI officials asked him to open the office and to take them to the conference room.
As they reached the conference room, they saw a computer installed therein, asked the PS to switch it on, assessed the same, and, forthwith, handed over a notice under Section 91 CrPc to the Secretary with reference to the investigation.
As per the notice, the secretary was requested to produce CPU of the system installed in my conference room. Thereafter, the CPU from the conference room of my office was seized without following the due procedure laid down.
From the perusal of the said notice, it was perceived that the notice was hand-written to the secretary, and immediately the property (CPU) was seized which shows the mala-fide of the Officer. The act of the CBI officials also shows their malice whereby the Notice was given and immediately the said property was seized that too without following proper guidelines, he said.