AAP accuses Sheila of protecting babu in scam

NEWDELHI: The AamAadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday lashed out at former chief minister Sheila Dikshit for allegedly trying to protect Delhi chief secretary, MM Kutty, for his alleged role in the “multi-crore co-operative bank scam”.

Kutty was principal secretary to CM Dikshit in 2012.

The A AP alleged that the scam took place during the rule of the three-time CM. The AAP’s accusation come after Dikshit said that Delhi had “some of the most efficient’ bureaucrats”, in response to her successor Arvind Kejriwal’ s remark that 90% of the IAS officers do not work In Delhi.

“The cooperative bank scam took place during the tenure of former CM Sheila Di ks hit in 2012. The current chief secretary in the Delhi government, who was principal secretary to then CM Dikshit is avoiding answering questions from a committee of the Delhi Assembly, and escaping accountability. The officers of Delhi government are protecting her from investigation, which has prompted her to he appraises on those officers,” said AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj.

Delhi Assembly’s questions and reference committee had directed Kutty to action against his subordinates allegedly involved in the scam.

“Ku tty has failed to respond to the committee,” he said.

Dikshit did not respond to phone calls. HTC