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LIVE! Rajendra Kumar claims CBI pressurised him to implicate Kejriwal in graft case

08:27  Rajendra Kumar claims CBI pressurised him to implicate Kejriwal in graft case:   Rajendra Kumar, former principal secretary to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who has been chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation in an alleged case of corruption, has sought voluntary retirement while claiming that he was forced to name the Delhi CM by the interrogators.

According to an Indian Express report, Kumar wrote to the Delhi chief secretary on Wednesday, claiming that he was repeatedly ‘told by his interrogators that they would set him free if he implicated the chief minister’.

‘I have been made to pay the price for my belief in the political neutrality of a civil service officer in the form of false cases against me, accusing me of corruption and other charges during the last few months, I have experienced an administrative environment wherein it seems extremely difficult to secure fair treatment and justice from central government agencies,’ Kumar wrote, according to the report.

Kumar was chargesheeted by the CBI last month.

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00:24  Trump cites Assange claim about Russia hacking:  

Gearing up for a high-profile briefing on claims that Russia hacked Democratic officials during last year’s election, President-elect Donald Trump is apparently taking the word of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over that of US intelligence officials who will brief him.

“Julian Assange said ‘a 14 year old could have hacked Podesta’ – why was DNC so careless? Also said Russians did not give him the info!” Trump tweeted Wednesday.

John Podesta was the Hillary Clinton campaign chairman whose emails were released by WikiLeaks during the campaign, part of an effort that U.S. intelligence officials attributed to the Russians, perhaps in order to help Trump win the election.

Source: Rediff