RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, May 27: A day after CBI searched two locations of former sports minister Bandhu Tikery during the investigation of the 34th National Games scam, Tirkey asked the investigating agency to bring all the recoveries from his locations into the public domain.
He said it was necessary to save his proper image among the public.
Tirkey said the CBI’s action within 24 hours of the declaration of the Mandar by-election and wide media publicity raises doubts about the intention of the investigating agency.
He said it was not the first time when the investigating agency was acted at the time of the election. Earlier also, he said, he was arrested by the investigating agency and sent to jail a few days before the 2019 assembly election.
Tirkey said that a conspiracy is being hatched against him and a recent conviction in a case of the disproportionate case is its outcome. He said he was framed as earlier the agency did not find anything in the case and submitted its closure report.
Bandhu Tirkey was in New Delhi when the CBI carried out a search operation at his ancestral residence in Banhaura for three hours and at his official residence in Morabadi for 9 hours.
He returned yesterday evening and addressed a press conference today to make his demand public.
