The Central Bureau of Investigation has refuted the wild claims made by Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia that the Centre was putting pressure to arrest him and that as a result, a CBI official has committed suicide. The agency has stated that the aforementioned officer had no involvement in the case’s investigation.
In its official statement, the CBI said that the claims made by Sisodia are mischievous and misleading. “It is clarified that the gentleman officer Late Jitendra Kumar was in no way connected with the investigation of the case,” the statement reads.
He was supervising prosecutors who are conducting the trial of already charge-sheeted cases in Delhi. Delhi Police, which is conducting inquest into the death, the officer has not held anyone responsible for his death in his suicide note: CBI
— ANI (@ANI) September 5, 2022
“He was supervising prosecutors who are conducting the trial of already charge-sheeted cases in Delhi. Delhi Police, which is conducting inquest into the death, the officer has not held anyone responsible for his death in his suicide note,” it further adds.
Accusing Manish Sisodia of creating hindrance in the proceedings of the case, the agency stated, “The Excise policy case is under probe. As such no clean chit has been given to any of the accused. The mischievous & misleading statement of Manish Sisodia is an attempt to divert attention from the ongoing probe in Delhi Excise Policy case and also amounting to interference in the...
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