Chennai: The CBI yesterday raided Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain's OSD Nikunj Aggarwal's office at the Delhi Secretariat here, drawing strong criticism from Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia.
A separate Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team raided the office of Anup Mohta, Director of Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya in east Delhi's Geeta Colony. "Our team visited Aggarwal and Mohta's offices to recover some documents related to the case," said a CBI official.
The agency took the step a day after registering a case against Aggarwal, a senior resident at Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya, and Mohta on charges of criminal conspiracy and under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act on the basis of a complaint from Delhi government's Deputy Secretary Vigilance K.S. Meena.
Reacting to the CBI raid, Kejriwal said Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes money from the corporates but conducts raids on honest people.
"You (Modi) take bribes from Sahara and Birla groups, papers of which are in the public domain, but you conduct raids on the honest people. Do whatever you want, but we are not afraid of your CBI threats," Kejriwal said in a video message.
Kejriwal, who is visiting Punjab, said Modi raided minister Satyendar Jain's office yesterday while a year back, he had conducted raid at his (Kejriwal) office too but got nothing.
"You (Modi) have unleashed all official agencies, including the CBI, Enforcement Directorate and the Income Tax Department on us but got nothing," the Aam Aadmi Party national convenor said. Kejriwal said he will tell the people that Modi took bribe from corporates like Birla and Sahara as Gujarat Chief Minister.
