Tanker scam: ACB summons Kejriwal’s private secretary for questioning

The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) has questioned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s private secretary in connection with its probe in the alleged Rs 400 crore tanker scam on Wednesday. The anti-graft body had summoned Kejriwal’s private secretary Bibhav Kumar last week and made him join the probe on Wednesday.

“He (Kumar) arrived at 11.30 am for the questioning at the ACB office,” said a senior official commenting on the interrogation. The official added that Kumar had been asked to bring some files and they are being examined.

The scam came to light when Delhi’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in June 2015, constituted a fact-finding committee to probe irregularities in hiring some 385 stainless steel water tankers by the Delhi Jal Board in 2012, during former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s rule.

In June 2016, the Delhi government sent a report of the fact-finding committee to Jung following which an FIR was registered in the case.

Former Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra had alleged that Kejriwal had influenced the probe into the tanker scam that dates back to Sheila Dikshit’s tenure as chief minister. The sacked minister also claimed that Kejriwal’s aide had asked him to delay sending of a few reports to the then Lieutenant …read more