Court asks for report on FIRs in PWD scam'
The complaint alleged deep-rooted corruption and that no material was actually purchased for executing the projects.
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday directed the Anti-Corruption Branch to submit a status report on three FIRs lodged in a complaint by Rahul Sharma, founder of Roads Anti-Corruption Organisation, accusing chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, his brother-in-law Surender Bansal, proprietor of a construction firm and a public servant for alleged irregularities in the grant of contracts for roads and sewer lines in Delhi.
The accused, Bansal, died in May this year.
The complaint alleged “deep-rooted corruption” and that no material was actually purchased for executing the projects. It also alleged that documents showing purchase of material were “concocted and for-ged”, and a loss of over '10 crore had been cau-sed to the public exchequer. District Judge Talwant Singh issued notice to the investigating officer of the case and asked him to file the report on July 5, the next date of hearing.
The matter came up before the district judge for deciding upon the jurisdiction issue in the matter.
Earlier, metropolitan magistrate Abhilash Malhotra had referred the matter to the district and sessions judge, after noting that the ACB had already lodged an FIR under the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act.