A first information report was filed against Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh and former Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker Sriniwas Tiwari on Saturday in connection with a decade-old case.
Assembly deputy secretary Shyamlal Maithil filed the FIR at the Jehangirabad police station under Sections 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery for cheating) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.
A committee, which was set up in 2004 and gave its report in 2006, had found that several appointments to the Assembly Secretariat between 1993 and 2003 were illegal. Mr. Singh was Chief Minister and Mr. Tiwari was Speaker during that period.
On receiving the report, the State Government had then asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe it, but the latter had declined saying the State agencies were competent enough to do the job. No further action was initiated.
