Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Principal Secretary Rajendra Kumar was questioned again by the CBI today in connection with a corruption case. The IAS officer came to the CBI Headquarters in New Delhi this morning for the second round of examination in connection with the case of alleged corruption registered against him and six others on Monday.
Kumar was questioned by the CBI for about seven hours late last night after the probe agency sleuths raided his Delhi Secretariat office.
The CBI said that it has registered a case against 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.
Kumar has been booked under sections of IPC on charges of criminal conspiracy and under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act for allegedly favouring a private company in five contracts worth 9.5 crore rupees during 2007 to 2014.
CBI carried out searches at 14 places connected with Kumar in the national capital, including his residence, and various locations in Uttar Pradesh.
The agency has claimed to have recovered about Rs 16 lakh, including Rs 2.4 lakh in cash, foreign currency of the value of Rs 3 lakh from the residence of Kumar.