A Special court on Wednesday directed the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) of the Delhi government to file a report on alleged threats to a complainant accusing commission of irregularities, in the award of contacts for construction of roads and sewer lines, by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and others.
Special Judge Poonam Chaudhry asked the Additional Commissioner of the probe agency to verify and submit a report on the threat charges alleged by the complainant. “Report be filed on the next date of hearing on July 31. SHO of ACB be also called on that day,” the court said in the order.
Earlier, the counsel for the complainant submitted that he had been receiving threats from many quarters, and another court had earlier directed DCP, north-east Delhi, to file a report when it was brought to its notice but the police report was on record.
‘Dummy companies’
Complainant Rahul Sharma, founder of the Roads Anti-Corruption Organisation, has alleged in his complaint that “from the records retrieved, and other sources, it has come out that Mr. Kejriwal’s brother-in-law, late Surender Kumar Bansal, operated Messrs Renu Construction Company and other dummy companies in order to obtain contracts by way of fraud in criminal connivance with government servants posted at PWD,” the complaint alleged.
“In 2015-16, Mr. Bansal had obtained a contract for certain works that were never completed. Shockingly, all payments were cleared under pressure from Mr. Kejriwal,” the complaint said. The other person mentioned in the complaint is P.K. Kathuria, then PWD Executive Engineer posted in north Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh.