Manish Sisodia's claims over deputy legal advisor Jitender Kumar's suicide misleading: CBI

CBI said a press conference held by Manish Sisodia, one of the FIR-named accused in a case pertaining to Delhi Excise Policy, stated that Jitendra Kumar, committed suicide as he was pressurised to make a strong false case against the Delhi Deputy CM.

CBI strongly refuted this "mischievous and misleading" statement by Sisodia.

"It is clarified that Jitendra Kumar was in no way connected with the investigation of this case. He was Deputy Legal Advisor in charge of the prosecution, in which capacity he was supervising prosecutors conducting the trial of already charge-sheeted cases in Delhi," claimed CBI.

Further, as per the Delhi Police, which has been conducting an inquest into the death, the officer has not held anyone responsible for his death in his suicide note, claimed CBI.

The Excise policy case is currently under investigation and no clean chit has been given to any of the accused.

The mischievous and misleading statement of Sisodia was an attempt to divert attention from the ongoing investigation in the Delhi Excise Policy case, and also amounted to interference in the inquest proceedings into the death of the officer, it added.