FIR in DJB alleged scams likely today
10 Feb 2014 4:42 AM IST
The Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government is likely to order the Anti Corruption Bureau to file an FIR and start investigation into financial irregularities of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB).
According to the official sources, the main focus of the government will be on financial irregularities in Commonwealth Games-2010 and Delhi Jal Board. In both cases, the trial could reach the door of former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit. The Aam Aadmi Party government has already ordered a FIR in alleged CWC scams in the purchase of street lighting equipment and Ring Road Bypass construction.
As far as corruption in DJB is concerned, the government has taken few unprecedented steps, 800 employees of DJB were transferred on 6 January as part of drive launched to ‘streamline’ its services and functioning. These employees had been posted at water emergency and filling points for over three years.
On 15 January, CBI had registered five cases of cheating and forgery in the supply of sewerage equipment to DJB. It also named eight executive engineers, six junior engineers and a private company in the case. The agency was probing irregularities in DJB contracts given to private companies during the tenure of the previous government.
Before coming on power, Arvind Kejriwal had continuously attacked DJB and had produced documents on 15 February, 2013, in which he allegedly exposed corruption in DJB. Kejriwal among other things said that DJB had fudged documents to show artificial non-revenue-water or leaked water figures to award contract to a foreign firm Degremont.
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