: A non-profit organisation on Friday filed a criminal complaint against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his brother-in-law and a government official in a court here seeking lodging of an FIR.
‘Irregularities’
In the complaint, Rahul Sharma, founder of the Road Anti-Corruption Organisation, alleged commission of irregularities in the award of contacts for construction of roads and sewer lines by the Chief Minister, his brother-in-law, Surender Kumar Bansal, proprietor of Messrs Renu Construction, and P.K. Kathuria, then PWD Executive Engineer posted in north Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh.
He has sought lodging of a case against them for cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy.
“From the records retrieved and other sources, it has come out that Mr. Surender Kumar Bansal operates Messrs Renu Construction Company and various other dummy companies in order to obtain contracts by way of fraud in criminal connivance with government servants posted at PWD,’’ the complaint alleged.
“Mr. Bansal in 2015-16 had obtained a contract for certain works which were never completed ,whereas, shockingly, all the payments were cleared under the pressure of Mr. Kejriwal,’’ the complaint further alleged.
Meanwhile, the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at the Tis Hazari courts has asked the Delhi Police to file an action-taken report on an old complaint accusing Mr. Kejriwal of misleading people by stating that that the municipal corporations were not under the control of the State government.
‘CM misled people’
Earlier, complainant Brijesh Shukla submitted to the court documents relating to his allegation that the Delhi government had spent over ₹42 lakh by giving advertisements in 20 newspapers in which the misleading statement was made by Mr. Kejriwal. The counsel for the complainant had earlier informed the court that in a reply to a RTI application, the Delhi government had admitted that a total expenditure of ₹42,01,405 was incurred on giving advertisements to the newspapers on October 30, 2015.
‘Register FIR’
The complainant has sought directions to the Karawal Nagar SHO to register an FIR against Mr.Kejriwal under Section 406 (criminal breach of trust) of the IPC.
