Vehicle fitness test scam: ACB to register FIR shortly

The complaint alleging corruption in grant of contract had been filed against Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and others.

"Senior public prosecutor (for Anti-Corruption Branch) has submitted that they (ACB) are going to register the FIR shortly and will file an investigation report (before the court on the next date of hearing), Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal noted in her order.

"The SPP has submitted they shall be proceeding as per law. Let them do so," the court said in its order.

The agency, however, remained silent on complainant's query as to whether they would be filing the FIR "on basis of and in terms of" his complaint or on the basis of ACB's status report in which they had given a clean chit to Dikshit and former Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely.

 

The matter pertains to a complaint filed by RTI activist Vivek Garg against Dikshit and Lovely, alleging that the Delhi government gave the contract for lane test of commercial vehicles before grant of fitness certificates to M/s ESP India without inviting any tender.

The complaint also names former Transport Commissioner R K Verma and M/s ESP India. (More)