Direct ACB to hand over papers related to CNG scam: CoI to LG

The Justice S N Aggarwal inquiry commission, set up by the Delhi government to probe the CNG fitness scam, has written to Lt Governor Najeeb Jung asking him to direct ACB chief M K Meena to produce records relating to the case before it.
In his letter, Chairman of the Commission Justice S N Aggarwal has asked Jung to ensure that the entire record in Meena's possession be produced before it within a week so that "nobody is blamed for obstructing or unduly delaying the proceedings of the commission at a later date".
Citing an order of the Delhi High Court, in the letter dated December 30, through which it has declined a request to stay the proceedings of the Commission, he said, "This necessarily implied that the proceedings before the commission should continue till further orders of the court."

In August last year, the Home Ministry had declared as "legally invalid and void" the Commission of Inquiry, saying the Delhi government was not the "competent authority" to set up any such panel.
The panel was set up by the AAP government to probe the award of contract by the Sheila Dikshit dispensation for inspection and certification of commercial vehicles for fitness to a firm in 2002.
It had issued a non-bailable warrant against Meena in last September which was stayed by the Delhi High Court.
"This commission is of the view that to ensure expeditious conclusion of inquiry proceedings it is necessarily that the relevant records pertaining to CNG fitness Scam in possession of Mr Meena should be produced before the commission immediately so that the inquiry may continue and brought to a logical end at an early date.

"I hope you agree that nobody is gaining anything by withholding the records as by the time the inquiry may be concluded the final orders of the honourable HC would also come and that shall be binding on all concerned including the commission," the letter said.