14 Liquor Bottles Add to Charges Against Arvind Kejriwal's Top Officer Rajender Kumar

Rajender Kumar, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Kejriwal, had yesterday been charged with criminal conspiracy and misconduct. Today, charges were added under excise rules after more than the legal limit of liquor was found in his house.

The CBI also says Rajender Kumar had nearly Rs 28 lakh in a bank account, which has been sealed.

The bureaucrat was questioned for hours last night on corruption allegations but was allowed to go.

The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) says the CBI's evidence against the bureaucrat is not strong enough. "After Rajender Kumar's 27 year career, CBI found 28 lakhs in his bank account, they are calling it recovery," tweeted the party's Dilip Pandey.

The CBI claims it has found about Rs. 13 lakh cash in raids yesterday on Rajender Kumar and another person. The agency said Rs. 3 lakh in foreign currency and Rs. 2.4 lakh cash was found from the official's home.

Rajender Kumar has been accused of setting up various companies that were given work contracts without tenders at a huge loss to the Delhi government. The alleged irregularities took place before AAP came to power.

Arvind Kejriwal has said that he was the target of the raids, not his principal secretary. He alleges that files were seized from his office during the 11-hour raid, which were unrelated to the CBI probe against Rajender Kumar.

Mr Kejriwal alleges that the raid was used to search his offices for a file linked to cricket corruption allegedly involving Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

On Tuesday, Mr Jaitley called the allegations "absolutely rubbish" and added: "I don't think I should comment on rubbish."

AAP alleges that there were financial irregularities when Mr Jaitley was the president of the DDCA or Delhi and District Cricket Association for 13 years till December, 2013.