Tanker scam: Govt seeks CBI or ACB probe against Sheila

New Delhi: The AAP-led Delhi government finally chose the assembly to recommended either a CBI or an anti-corruption branch (ACB) probe against former chief minister Sheila Dikshit in an alleged water tanker scam running into Rs 400 crore.
Water minister Kapil Mishra said he had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung as both investigative agencies came directly under the Centre."I am requesting you to kindly hand over this matter to CBI with the direction to lodge an FIR and take further action in accordance with law," Mishra wrote to the PM. In the letter to Jung, Mishra said as ACB was reporting to him and the Delhi government had no control over it, the government was requesting the LG to hand over the matter to ACB.
The move came on Monday after the leader of opposition in the assembly, Vijender Gupta, asked chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to make the report of a fact-finding committee on the alleged scam public. Mishra has written that the report "indicates that the functionaries and the members of the then Delhi Jal Board, including its then chairperson/chief minister Sheila Dikshit, had indulged in grave irregularities" and that "the acts of omissions and commissions by DJB under the chairpersonship of Sheila Dikshit has resulted in a loss of approximately Rs 400 crore".
Dikshit told TOI that she would not like to comment as she had no information on the matter.
Gupta alleged that the chief minister had committed the grave offence of denigrating the office of PM by dragging him in a State subject for which the CM himself was entirely responsible. He asked the CM why he had not filed an FIR 10 months ago and why he had been now cunningly making the PM and the LG responsible.
Taking a dig at Gupta, Kejriwal said the opposition leader could take credit for "forcing" the Delhi government to release the report, but dared him to get the FIR registered against Dikshit soon. "After recommending either a CBI or an ACB probe by the government, Gupta should assure us that he will now approach Prime Minister Narendra Modi and request him to order registration of an FIR against Sheila Dikshit within two months," he said.