CBI seized 'unrelated' files

An AAP activist holds dummy parrots in a cage during a protest in Ahmedabad yesterday.

New Delhi: The CBI seized files containing ‘Cabinet decisions' during its daylong raid on Tuesday, the Delhi government alleged yesterday with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claiming that a file relating to DDCA was scrutinised.

An AAP activist holds dummy parrots in a cage during a protest in Ahmedabad yesterday. Pic/PTI

Taking the attack to the next level, Kejriwal and his Deputy Manish Sisodia accused the CBI of seizing documents ‘unrelated' to the agency's probe against Principal Secretary Rajendra Kumar. The CM also launched a fresh attack on Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, saying he had ‘misled' Parliament by saying that the CBI did not raid the Chief Minister's office.

"CBI kept reading DDCA file in my office. They would have seized it. But after my media briefing, they left it. Not clear if they took a copy. Docs seized from my office. No relation to allegations being probed. Item 7-file movement register of last one month," Kejriwal mentioned in a series of tweets.

Addressing a press conference, Sisodia wondered why the CBI had allegedly seized ‘file movement register of November-December' and ‘three files of transport department'.

"What is the connection? CBI also scrutinized files of DDCA. They even planned to seize them but did not do so after the CM raised the issue," Sisodia said.

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