Court asks police to file status on Dikshit case
25 July 2012 6:57 AM IST
A Delhi court on Tuesday asked the Delhi Police to file status report on a complaint against Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely for alleged corruption in granting fitness certificates to commercial vehicles.
Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal directed the Anti-Corruption branch of the Delhi Police to file its status report within six weeks detailing the steps it has taken on the complaint filed by RTI activist Vivek Garg. Besides Dikshit and Lovely, the complaint also named former Transport Commissioner R K Verma and a company which was granted contract for lane tests of commercial vehicles, M/s ESP India. Garg, through his counsel Vivek Gupta, told the court that the Delhi government gave away the contract for lane test of commercial vehicles prior to issuing fitness certificates to the vehicles to a private firm without inviting any tender.
‘Owing to corrupt and malafide intentions of the said ministers (Dikshit and Lovely), officer (R K Verma) and the company (ESP India), no tender bid was called and the contract was given in contravention of the law,’ Garg alleged in his complaint.
The complainant told the court that the premises being used by the company for conducting the lane test belong to the Transport Department and the entire payment for machines and infrastructure is made by the government but the revenue generated by the private firm is not shared with the state. The complainant sought the court’s direction to lodge an FIR against Dikshit, Lovely, Verma and the owner of M/s ESP India.
Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal directed the Anti-Corruption branch of the Delhi Police to file its status report within six weeks detailing the steps it has taken on the complaint filed by RTI activist Vivek Garg. Besides Dikshit and Lovely, the complaint also named former Transport Commissioner R K Verma and a company which was granted contract for lane tests of commercial vehicles, M/s ESP India. Garg, through his counsel Vivek Gupta, told the court that the Delhi government gave away the contract for lane test of commercial vehicles prior to issuing fitness certificates to the vehicles to a private firm without inviting any tender.
‘Owing to corrupt and malafide intentions of the said ministers (Dikshit and Lovely), officer (R K Verma) and the company (ESP India), no tender bid was called and the contract was given in contravention of the law,’ Garg alleged in his complaint.
The complainant told the court that the premises being used by the company for conducting the lane test belong to the Transport Department and the entire payment for machines and infrastructure is made by the government but the revenue generated by the private firm is not shared with the state. The complainant sought the court’s direction to lodge an FIR against Dikshit, Lovely, Verma and the owner of M/s ESP India.
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