ACB gets more time to file report on complaint against Dikshit

The ACB told Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal that it needed more time to file its report to it on the complaint, which has held Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely responsible for the alleged corruption.

On ACB's plea, the court grnated it time till October 4.

The court had on July 24 asked the ACB to file its report, detailing the steps it has taken on RTI activist Vivek Garg's complaint, by September 4.

Besides Dikshit and Lovely, the complaint had also named former Transport Commissioner R K Verma and a company which was granted contract for lane tests of commercial vehicles, ESP India.

While granting more time, the court told ACB that it would be given no more time.

"You should have filed it by now. I have already given you enough time," said the court.

On being told by the complainant that the ACB has forwarded his complaint to the Transport Department, the court asked the agency to investigate the matter properly.

"You (ACB) are the investigating agency. You have to investigate and give the report and not seek reply from the Transport Department. You have to verify the facts and figures given in the complaint," the court said.

"Status report has to come from the ACB," it added.

Garg, through his counsel Vivek Gupta, had earlier told the court that the Delhi government gave away the contract for lane testing of commercial vehicles for fitness certificate to a private firm without inviting any tender. (More)