PWD scam: Court asks ACB to submit status report

A Delhi court on Monday directed the city’s Anti-corruption Branch to submit a status report on the three FIRS registered over alleged irregularities in the PWD works against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and others.

District Judge Talwant Singh asked the Investigating Officer (IO) of the case to file a status report and listed the matter for July 5 for further hearing.

The matter was referred to District Judge Singh by Metropolitan Magistrate Abhilash Malhotra last month.

Malhotra had referred the matter to the district judge observing that the ACB had lodged an First Information Report (FIR) under the charges of Prevention of Corruption Act, which can be tried by the special court.

The magistrate court has no jurisdiction to try cases dealing with corruption charges.

The court is hearing a criminal complaint filed by Roads Anti-corruption Organisation founder Rahul Sharma and its secretary Viplav Awasthy, who sought registration of a case against Kejriwal, his brother-in-law Surender Kumar Bansal, and a Public Works Department (PWD) officer on charges of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy.

Bansal, however, passed away a few months ago.

The complainants accused them of cheating and defrauding the treasury to the tune of over Rs 10 crore.