By IANS,
New Delhi : A city court Friday asked Delhi Police to file a report on a complaint of corruption against Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit and others.
Hearing a private complaint filed by advocate and Right to Information (RTI) activist Vivek Garg, Metropolitan Magistrate Neeraj Gaur asked Delhi Police’s Anti-Corruption Branch to file an action-taken report by July 4.
In his complaint, Garg alleged that Dikshit with Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely and then transport commissioner R.K. Verma had favoured a private company, ESP India, in a contract, causing losses to the public exchequer.
Garg told the court that the alleged accused bifurcated the process of issuing fitness certificates to commercial vehicles and awarded the contract to issue such certificates to a private company. Earlier, it was the transport department that issued the certificates.
“Due to corrupt and malafide intentions of the said ministers (Dikshit and Lovely), officer (Verma) and company (ESP India), no tender bid was called and the contract was given in contravention of the law,” Garg said in his complaint.
Garg has requested the court to initiate proceeding against the accused under charges of cheating, criminal conspiracy and various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act.