Atishi asked for files related to case may be seized so to prevent 'tampering or destruction of evidence’?!
The aam aadmi party (AAP) government in delhi referred the matter of alleged Rs 850 crore scam in the land acquisition for the Dwarka Expressway to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday. The move comes a couple of days after vigilance minister Atishi submitted a 650+ page preliminary investigation report to delhi Chief minister arvind kejriwal alleging that delhi chief secretary naresh Kumar played an instrumental role in benefitting the company linked to his son, karan Chauhan, with “illicit profit” of Rs 850 crore.According to sources, the preliminary report alleged naresh Kumar’s involvement in “enhancing an exorbitant compensation award” for land in Bamnoli village with the aim to provide illicit profits to a company linked to his son. The report, sources said, reveals “incriminating facts” and “connections and the chronology given the prima facie appearance of complicity” of Chief Secretary naresh Kumar with district Magistrate South West hemant Kumar and the landowners in the land acquisition on the Dwarka Expressway.According to sources, the preliminary investigative report also unveils a conspiracy by senior officers of Delhi’s Vigilance Department including the chief secretary to undervalue the scale of the scam at Rs 312 crore. The actual compensation award would have resulted in an illicit gain of Rs 850 crore to the beneficiaries, sources said. The report states, “Being the most salient fact pertaining to this scam, the possibility of this being an oversight by all the officers of the DOV that signed on the report, including the Chief Vigilance Officer and Chief Secretary, naresh Kumar, seems suspect. This prima-facie points to an attempt to hide the scale of this corruption so as to prevent scrutiny on persons involved in giving effect to it.”