A court here on Sunday sent Delhi government's principal secretary Rajendra Kumar and six others to one-day judicial custody in response to Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) plea for a three-day police extension.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Shunali Gupta passed the order in a packed courthouse. Arvind Kejriwal's chief secretary Rajendra was arrested along with Deputy Secretary Tarun Sharma, Rajendra's close aide Ashok Kumar and owners of a private firm, Sandeep Kumar and Dinesh Kumar Gupta in connection with illegal gratification on July 4 and were remanded to five days police custody with ended today. On Saturday, the CBI also arrested RS Kaushik and his predecessor G K Nanda, present and former Managing Directors of a PSU respectively, in connection with this case.
"Earlier, the police custody order for five accused was passed by the designated CBI court. The application for the extension of their police custody and another application for the police custody of two accused who were arrested yesterday (Saturday) will be considered the designated court itself. Meanwhile, all the seven accused be sent to one day's judicial custody," the court said.
Seeking an extension of the police custody, the CBI stated that raids were conducted based on information given during interrogation, which needs to be analysed. "We also want to confront the two new suspects arrested along with the five others," the CBI submitted.
The CBI, that had registered this case in December 2015, has alleged in court that Rajendra is an 'influential' officer, was intimidating witnesses. According to CBI, the five accused arrested earlier showed undue favours to Endeavour Systems Pvt Ltd (ESPL), a private firm allegedly floated by Rajendra, and awarded government contracts worth over Rs 50 crore.
Kaushik and Nanda, present and former Managing Directors of Intelligent Communication Systems India Ltd (ICSIL), a Delhi government undertaking which is a joint venture of Telecommunication Consultants India Ltd (TCIL) and Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation, were arrested as they were allegedly evasive during their questioning.
ritika.jain@dnaindia.net
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