Suspended IAS officer Rajendar Kumar, the former Principal Secretary of Arvind Kejriwal, has accused the CBI of "misusing" CrPC provisions by continuing a probe against him despite having filed a charge-sheet.
In a blogpost, Kumar said that while Section 173(8) of the Criminal Procedure Code permits further investigation after the filing of charge-sheet, it is intended to be used when "entirely new evidence comes".
"...and that too never simultaneously when charge-sheet has just been filed under Section 173(2)," Kumar, who recently stated his desire to join a political party, wrote. The CBI had filed charge-sheet against Kumar in connection with a case of alleged graft.
"The CBI is misusing the provisions of Criminal Procedure Code to continue to put pressure on people, whom they have implicated along with me in the case. Else, they would have filed the charge sheet only after completing the investigation and after gathering all the evidence required.
"It is clear that they understand that the charge-sheet filed is going to fail and therefore, the only way to continue to threaten the people is to misuse the provisions of Criminal Procedure Code," Kumar said. With agency inputs