Manish Sisodia claims CBI officer died under pressure to frame him, agency hits back
India Today
The CBI has strongly refuted claims by Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, wherein he claimed that a CBI officer died by suicide on being pressured to frame false charges against him.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has debunked a statement by Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia wherein he claimed that a CBI officer died by suicide due to mounting pressure to press for his arrest.
On Monday, Manish Sisodia claimed that CBI officer Jitendra Kumar, who was the deputy legal advisor with the anti-corruption branch of CBI, died by suicide as he was being pressured to frame a false case against him for arrest.
"A CBI investigating officer died by suicide. He was being unfairly pressurised to illegally sanction my arrest in a fraudulent manner, which he did not approve," Sisodia claimed.
Refuting Sisodia's claims, the CBI said that the Delhi deputy CM's statement was "mischievous and misleading" and a bid to divert attention from the ongoing investigation in the Delhi liquor policy case.
"CBI strongly refutes this mischievous and misleading statement by Shri Sisodia. It is clarified that the gentleman officer Late Shri Jitendra Kumar, was in no way connected with the investigation of this case. He was Deputy Legal Advisor in-charge of prosecution; in which capacity he was supervising prosecutors who are conducting the trial of already charge-sheeted cases in Delhi," the CBI said in a statement.
