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Court asks CBI to return some seized raid documents to Delhi govt

A Special Court in Delhi today directed the CBI to return some documents seized by it during the raids at the office of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's principal secretary Rajendra Kumar to the Delhi government.The raid was conducted by the Investigating Agency on 15th of last month. <br/><br/>Disposing of an application filed by the city government seeking release of some of the documents seized by the agency, Special CBI Judge Ajay Kumar Jain said, that directions have been given to release them. In its plea, Delhi government had also sought initiation of stringent action against erring officials responsible for conducting raids malafidely which cause immense dislocation of work in the office of the applicant.<br/><br/>The CBI had earlier told the court that the raid at Kumar's office was not aimed at the Delhi Government but against an alleged corrupt officer who had misused his official position.<br/>CBI's prosecutor had also said the documents seized during the raid were relevant for the ongoing probe by the agency. <br/><br/>Meanwhile, the AAP government has said that it appears from Court's order that the raid was politically motivated. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said, the documents seized by the CBI during the raid has nothing to do with the corruption case related to 2007 to 2013. He questioned, why the Agency had seized the documents related to 2014 and 2015.

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