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Arvind Kejriwal's top bureaucrat Rajender Kumar charged for 14 liquor bottles
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IBNS) Arvind Kejriwal's top bureaucrat Rajender Kumar has been charged for keeping 14 liquor bottles at home and is being questioned again, a day after CBI raids at the Delhi Government offices triggered a political furore.
Media reports quoted the CBI as saying that Rajender Kumar, the Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Kejriwal, had nearly Rs. 28 lakh in a bank account, which has been seized.
The bureaucrat was questioned for hours on Tuesday night on corruption allegations but was allowed to go.
The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) says the CBI's evidence against the bureaucrat is not strong enough.
Rajender Kumar has also been charged under the excise rules for possessing more than the legal limit of liquor, which carries a three-year sentence. The CBI had earlier charged him with criminal conspiracy and misconduct.
The CBI claims it has found about Rs. 13 lakh cash in raids on Rajender Kumar and another person. The agency said Rs. 3 lakh in foreign currency and Rs. 2.4 lakh cash was found from the official's home.
Arvind Kejriwal has said that he was the target of the raids, not his principal secretary. He alleges that files were seized from his office during the nearly 11 hour raid, which were unrelated to the CBI probe against his officer.
Rajender Kumar has been accused of setting up various companies that were given work contracts without tenders at a huge loss to the Delhi government. The alleged irregularities took place before AAP came to power.
Kejriwal alleges that the raid was used to search his offices for a file linked to cricket corruption allegedly involving Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
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