Delhi ACB to move HC against Speaker's refusal to give prosecution sanction against AAP MLA in graft case
The Hindu
According to the sources, S.K. Bagga, the MLA from Krishna Nagar in east Delhi, has been accused of seeking bribe from an AAP worker, Raju Sachdeva, on multiple occasions on different pretexts
The Delhi government's Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) has decided to move the high court against Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel's order declining prosecution sanction against AAP MLA S.K. Bagga in a corruption case, official sources said on Tuesday.
According to the sources, Mr. Bagga, the MLA from Krishna Nagar in east Delhi, has been accused of seeking bribe from an AAP worker, Raju Sachdeva, on multiple occasions on different pretexts.
But despite having clinching evidence in the form of call recordings where Mr. Bagga can be heard demanding a bribe of ₹5 lakh, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal turned a blind eye to it and refused to take any action after Mr. Sachdeva filed a complaint and provided the call recording to him on November 6, 2015, the sources claimed.
"When the ACB, which is investigating the case, approached [Mr.] Goel seeking prosecution sanction against Bagga, after going through the due diligence of investigative procedures, he refused to grant prosecution sanction, in an obvious attempt to save [Mr.] Bagga.
"[Mr.] Goel, in complete and blatant disregard of evidence verified substantively by the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), sweepingly left [Mr.] Bagga off the hook by resorting to a partisan and questionable personal 'wisdom'," one of the official sources said.
In his complaint dated November 9, 2015, Mr. Sachdeva had alleged that Mr. Bagga took ₹11,000, ₹21,000 and ₹25,000 on different occasions promising to get him an Aam Aami Party (AAP) ticket in the Delhi civic elections of 2017. Thereafter, Mr. Bagga demanded ₹2 lakh and again ₹1 lakh from Mr. Sachdeva, but he refused, the sources claimed.
They further disclosed that in November 2015, Mr. Bagga had told Mr. Sachdeva to organise a Diwali function at Gandhi Park in New Govindpura and promised that the Chief Minister would be the chief guest there. The complainant said Mr. Bagga demanded ₹5 lakh for ensuring Mr. Kejriwal's presence at the event, they claimed.
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