Rajendra Kumar sent to judicial custody
A Delhi court sent chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s former principal secretary Rajendra Kumar and six others, arrested in an alleged corruption case, to one-day judicial custody (JC) on Sunday.
Kumar, a 1989 batch IAS officer from the UT cadre, deputy secretary in Kejriwal’s office Tarun Sharma, Kumar’s close aide Ashok Kumar and owners of a private firm, Sandeep Kumar and Dinesh Kumar Gupta, arrested in the case, were remanded in JC till Monday. It also sent RS Kaushik and his predecessor GK Nanda, present and former managing directors of a PSU respectively, to JC till Monday, asking all the seven accused to be produced before the special CBI court, which will consider the agency’s plea for their police remand.
“Earlier, the police custody order for five accused was passed by the 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 by the designated court itself.
“Meanwhile, all the seven accused be sent to one day’s judicial custody,” the court said.
According to CBI, the five accused arrested earlier were showing undue favours to Endeavour Systems Pvt Ltd (ESPL), a private firm allegedly floated by Kumar, in award of government contracts worth over `50 crore.
CBI had registered a case against Kumar and others in December last year alleging that the officer had abused his official position by “favouring a particular firm in the last few years in getting tenders of Delhi government departments”.
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.
CBI REGISTERED A CASE AGAINST KUMAR AND OTHERS IN 2015 ALLEGING THAT THE OFFICER HAD ABUSED HIS OFFICIAL POSITION