A Delhi court on Monday sent Rajendra Kumar, former Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, and six others CBI custody for three days. According to CBI, new incriminating evidence has been recovered from the two more arrested men and it needs to confront the co-accused for that.
Kumar, a 1989-batch IAS officer of UT cadre and now under suspension by the Chief Minister, Tarun Sharma, the Deputy Secretary in Chief Minister’s Office, Kumar’s close aide Ashok Kumar and owners of a private firm — Sandeep Kumar and Dinesh Kumar Gupta, were sent for agency’s custody after they were produced before the court on expiry of their one-day judicial remand.
Special CBI Judge Arvind Kumar also sent RS Kaushik and his predecessor GK Nanda, present and the former Managing Directors of a PSU respectively, to a three-day CBI custody on expiry of a day’s judicial custody.
While Kumar, Tarun, Ashok, Sandeep and Dinesh were earlier in CBI custody for five days, the other two accused who were arrested on Saturday, were sent to the agency’s custody on Monday.
All the seven accused were on Sunday produced before a magisterial court which had sent them to a day’s judicial custody while asking them to be produced before the special CBI court on Monday.
During the hearing today, the CBI told the court that it needed their custody as it wanted to confront the accused arrested earlier with those nabbed on Saturday.
The agency submitted that six more addresses were revealed during the interrogation of the five accused from where several more incriminating materials were recovered.
It claimed that during the search, a diary was recovered from which it came to the light that `60 lakh cash was paid by one of the accused to acquire a flat for another accused.
“Fresh discoveries are likely to be made in the case... Huge illegal gratification was given to the accused company (Endeavour Systems Pvt ltd). We have the audio clips which connect of all the accused with each other,” the CBI claimed.