Shopping mall case: EOW gives clean chit to Digvijay, 4 others

After filing a report before the Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court today, the EOW said that the TI Mall probe has been completed and no 'sufficient ground' was found against Singh and others accused of alleged irregularities in the construction of the mall.

Besides the Congress general secretary, others who got relief in the case are the then Housing and Environment Minister Choudhary Rakesh Singh Chaturvedi, former Principal Secretary AV Singh, Town and Country Planning Department's former Joint Director, V P Kulshresta and Padma Kalani, a relative of the mall owner.

The EOW in its report following the March 28 directives of the High Court said after scrutinising the available documents and evidence, it has not found any sufficient ground against them in the case.

BJP leader Mahesh Garg had filed a complaint with the EOW alleging large scale irregularities in the construction of TI Mall, following which, a case was registered against Singh, Chaturvedi and 10 others in this regard in February 2009.

The allegations against Digvijay Singh were that during his tenure as the MP Chief Minister, he had allegedly flouted the norms and played a vital role in permitting the illegal construction of the mall.

Meanwhile, the complainant's advocate Manohar Dalal said that he would file a private complaint in the court against the EOW's clean chit to Singh and others in the case.

He alleged that EOW was going soft in the case since the beginning and had not taken any concrete step against the accused.

EOW had already filed a charge sheet in the case against the remaining persons including the mall owner, Manish Kalani, MP Housing Board's former Chairman, CP Shekhar, retired IAS officers, UK Samal and DP Tiwari on June 30, 2011, and supplementary chargesheet against Indore Municipal Corportation's then official Rakesh Sharma on February 4, 2012. PTI HWP MAS NP