Complaint filed against Kejriwal over his MCD claims

A criminal complaint was today filed against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a court here seeking filing of an FIR against him, alleging he has misled the people of Delhi by stating that municipal corporations are not under the AAP government's control.
The complainant, Brijesh Shukla of Swaraj Janta Party, sought direction to the SHO of Karawal Nagar police station in north east Delhi to register an FIR against Kejriwal under Section 406 (criminal breach of trust) of IPC.
The plea, filed in Karkardooma court, would come up for hearing on February 10.
Kejriwal had come out with a full-page advertisement in newspapers in October last saying there were misunderstandings regarding a strike by MCD employees and he wanted to make it clear that it was wrong to say that the corporations come under the Delhi government, Shukla claimed.

"In November, 2015, I filed an RTI with Delhi government which in its reply, has said that the corporations are under its control. Action should be initiated against him for misleading people and spending public money for spreading lies," the complainant said.
He said he had also filed complaints to the Deputy Commissioner of Police of north east district and the LG seeking registration of FIR against Kejriwal for allegedly misappropriating public fund.

Advocate Kislay Pandey, who filed the plea on behalf of the complainant, has alleged "deep-rooted corruption" and said the documents showed no material was actually purchased for completing the work here.

The complainant claimed the documents showed no materials were actually purchased and papers in this connection were "concocted and forged", causing a loss of over Rs 10 crore to the public exchequer.
The plea has alleged that the role of the chief minister must be investigated as he had allegedly caused substantive gains to Bansal and others by using his influence.
It has also sought prosecution of P K Kathuria, the then executive engineer in PWD, claiming he had connived with other government officials and abused his position to obtain huge money for himself, Bansal and others.
It has alleged that Bansal operated through several dummy firms to obtain government contracts in connivance with several senior officials of PWD, which never got executed "whereas shockingly all the payments have been cleared under the pressure of Kejriwal".

Besides lodging of FIR, the complaint has also sought the court's direction to call for a status report from the police, monitoring of the probe and a status report from CBI on a complaint given to it on January 9.