Midnight raid to seize ‘records’ in Himachal

According to sources, the Virbhadra government acted following information that the records were being destroyed. The recordings reportedly concern Congress leaders, bureaucrats and businessmen, among others.

While eight computer hard discs were reportedly seized from the state CID office on Tuesday, four more were recovered from the state Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau. All the discs as well as CPUs of computers allegedly used to make the recordings were sent to the state forensic laboratory at Junga on Wednesday.

ADGP (Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau) Privthi Raj confirmed that a forensic team had taken the CPUs. “It is true we have handed over some computer CPUs to the forensic team which came to us along with a senior magistrate following government orders,” he told The Indian Express.

Raj was appointed to the post, replacing K C Sadyal, hours after Virbhadra took over. The CM has also got a new CID head in ADGP (Homeguards) B Kamal Kumar.

A senior police officer told The Indian Express that the records were seized on the orders of Chief Secretary Sudripta Roy. “We do not know what was happening at the CID or whether voice recordings were made on

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