Meena skips summon by Commission of Inquiry

Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) chief Mukesh Kumar Meena did not appear today before the Commission of Inquiry, formed by the AAP government to probe the alleged multi-crore CNG-Fitness scam.
The Commission, headed by retired High Court judge S N Agarwal, had summoned Meena to appear before it at 3 PM today for having passed an order that "no information pertaining to the case will be shared with the Commission", said a source in ACB.
The Arvind Kejriwal government had on August 11 constituted the Commission of Inquiry to probe the alleged Rs 100-crore CNG fitness scam in which a number of officials of previous Sheila Dikshit government are under the scanner.

Soon after the formation of the Commission of Inquiry by the AAP government, Meena, who is also a Joint Commissioner in Delhi Police, openly came out against it and said that he "will not allow any interference in the ongoing investigation".
Last month, Union Home Ministry had termed the setting up of the Commission of Inquiry by the Delhi government as "illegal, invalid"
"The MHA terms the Commission of Inquiry constituted by the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) as legally invalid and void ab initio," a statement issued by the office of the Lieutenant Governor said last month.

Yesterday, the ACB filed a charge sheet in a court in connection with the scam, in which several persons were arrested in 2013 for allegedly siphoning off crores of rupees in conducting fitness tests of commercial vehicles in the national capital in connivance with the transport department.
The ACB had registered a case pursuant to a complaint by RTI activist Vivek Garg alleging that the contract for lane test of commercial vehicles before grant of fitness certificates was granted by the Delhi government to ESP India without inviting any tender in 2002 and necessary tests were not being conducted by the company.

Garg had sought registration of FIR against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, former Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely, former Transport Commissioner R K Verma and ESP India. The ACB, however, had given a clean chit to Dikshit and Lovely, saying no irregularity was found on their part.