Trouble for Sheila? FIR lodged in CWG street light scam
7 Feb 2014 5:52 AM IST
The decision came two days after the Arvind Kejriwal government recommended to the President strict action against Dikshit in the alleged irregularities in distributing provisional certificates to unauthorised colonies.
During the course of organising and conducting CWG-2010, several alleged financial irregularities were carried out by those at the helm of affairs in the Delhi government, Delhi Development Authority (DDA), New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), Municipal Corporation Of Delhi (MCD), Ministry of Sports & Youth Affairs, the Organising Committee and others.
The ACB has registered an FIR on the basis of the CAG, the CVC, and V K Shunglu committee reports and launched a probe into the alleged scam. The reports suggest discrepancies in procurement of street lights for the CWG-2010 led to a loss of Rs 31.7 crore to the government’s exchequer. It is alleged that Dikshit had finalised the deal with companies that were found to be non-eligible in reports.
The Shunglu committee report also suggests that three government agencies PWD, NDMC and MCD imported streets lights which was unnecessary and that too on much higher rates. The MCD caused a loss of Rs 4.5 crore, NDMC a loss of Rs 6.76 crore and the PWD caused a loss of Rs 19.81 crore.
‘We have asked the Anti-Corruption Bureau to find out why ineligible companies were made eligible and how purchases (of street lights) were made at escalated prices,’ Delhi minister Manish Sisodia told reporters.
‘There was clear collusion with vendors by some officials and then chief minister and other ministers to cause huge financial loss to the government and wrongful gain to the vendors/contractors and others,’ said an official statement.
Asked whether there will be investigation against Dikshit, Sisodia said the probe is not against any particular individual.
In its poll campaign, the AAP had gone hammer and tongs against the Congress-led government for the scandal-ridden Commonwealth Games which it had organised in 2010. The year-old party had promised to send the guilty, including then chief minister Sheila Dikshit, behind the bars in the alleged scam.
‘In the FIR, Sheila Dikshit’s name is not registered. This is because the investigation is in the preliminary stage so we can’t say the findings are proof against anyone,’ an ACB officer said.
During the course of organising and conducting CWG-2010, several alleged financial irregularities were carried out by those at the helm of affairs in the Delhi government, Delhi Development Authority (DDA), New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), Municipal Corporation Of Delhi (MCD), Ministry of Sports & Youth Affairs, the Organising Committee and others.
The ACB has registered an FIR on the basis of the CAG, the CVC, and V K Shunglu committee reports and launched a probe into the alleged scam. The reports suggest discrepancies in procurement of street lights for the CWG-2010 led to a loss of Rs 31.7 crore to the government’s exchequer. It is alleged that Dikshit had finalised the deal with companies that were found to be non-eligible in reports.
The Shunglu committee report also suggests that three government agencies PWD, NDMC and MCD imported streets lights which was unnecessary and that too on much higher rates. The MCD caused a loss of Rs 4.5 crore, NDMC a loss of Rs 6.76 crore and the PWD caused a loss of Rs 19.81 crore.
‘We have asked the Anti-Corruption Bureau to find out why ineligible companies were made eligible and how purchases (of street lights) were made at escalated prices,’ Delhi minister Manish Sisodia told reporters.
‘There was clear collusion with vendors by some officials and then chief minister and other ministers to cause huge financial loss to the government and wrongful gain to the vendors/contractors and others,’ said an official statement.
Asked whether there will be investigation against Dikshit, Sisodia said the probe is not against any particular individual.
In its poll campaign, the AAP had gone hammer and tongs against the Congress-led government for the scandal-ridden Commonwealth Games which it had organised in 2010. The year-old party had promised to send the guilty, including then chief minister Sheila Dikshit, behind the bars in the alleged scam.
‘In the FIR, Sheila Dikshit’s name is not registered. This is because the investigation is in the preliminary stage so we can’t say the findings are proof against anyone,’ an ACB officer said.
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