Order on FIR against Arvind Kejriwal reserved

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday reserved for next week its order on a criminal complaint seeking an FIR against Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, his brother-in-law and a public servant for alleged irregularities in grant of contracts for roads and sewer lines.

Metropolitan Magistrate Abhilash Malhotra listed the plea for February 2 after hearing submissions of the counsel. The complainant alleged “deep-rooted corruption” on the part of the government and said that documents had showed no material was actually purchased for completing the work.

The court was hearing the complaint filed by Rahul Sharma, founder of Roads Anti-Corruption Organisation (RACO), in which officers of Delhi government’s Public Works Development (PWD), Mr Kejriwal and his brother-in-law Surender Kumar Bansal, proprietor of a construction firm, were accused of corruption.

Advocate Kislay Pandey, who filed the plea on behalf of the complainant, clai-med that the documents showed no material was actually purchased and documents were “concocted and forged” by them, causing a loss of over Rs 10 crore to the public exchequer. Mr Pandey said Mr Kejriwal should be questioned in the case.