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Rajendra Kumar's arrest: CBI says voice in audio clips belongs to Kejriwal's former Principal Secretary

CBI had booked Kumar for allegedly favouring a private company in five contracts worth Rs 9.5 crore during 2007-14.

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Officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), currently probing Rajendra Kumar, the former Principal Secretary to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, on Friday said that voice samples collected by the agency while investigating Kumar for charges of corruption did belong to the arrested senior bureaucrat.

The revelation was made on a day when the CBI not only conducted searches at six locations in Delhi, Agra and Noida but also claimed that one of the accused in the case confessed to his role in the scam. In December 2015, after conducting raids at the offices of Kumar, the probe agency had said that it had recovered a total of five audio clips from Kumar’s email address. 

CBI had further said that the clips, which date from the period 2012-2013, were sent to the other accused by Kumar where in he allegedly seems to be passing on instructions to his associates about how to influence and manipulate contracts in favour of a private company Endeavour Systems Private Limited (ESPL), a company that he allegedly floated as front company in 2006. The clips from December last year were sent to CFSL to determine whether the voice in the was that of Kumar. According to CBI, Kumar, being fearful that his phone might have been tapped, would send this audio clips on emails of other accused persons. 

The agency on Friday said the CFSL had established that the voice in the clip was of Kumar who had sent the same to other accused in case.

The two other arrested are Sandeep Kumar and Dinesh Gupta, both of whom are believed to be close to the principal secretary. The duo was nominated as directors of Endeavour Systems, which would over the years receive contracts through ICSIL (Intelligent Communication Systems India Ltd), which was empanelled with the Delhi government in March 2007. “In the same year, Kumar allegedly hired Sandeep Kumar as a consultant for the Delhi government, without following any process and even cancelled advertisements showing that the government was interested in hiring,” said a CBI source.

CBI had booked Kumar under Sections 120 B of IPC (criminal conspiracy), and 13(2), 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act (criminal conspiracy, criminal misconduct etc) for allegedly favouring a private company in five contracts worth Rs 9.5 crore during 2007-14. However, the probe, sources said, revealed that the alleged scam started in 2006, with Kumar setting up a front company.

The agency further said that Sandeep Kumar, a long time associate of Kumar, had on Friday confessed to his involvement in the ‘scam’.

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