Delhi police asks complaint copy from court to file FIR against Arvind Kejriwal and others

Delhi Police fails to comply with court order to lodge FIR against Arvind Kejriwal, Gulab Singh, and Nitika Sharma.

The Delhi Police on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) told a court here that it has failed comply with its order of lodging an FIR against the former Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal, former MLA Gulab Singh and MCD councillor Nitika Sharma in a case of misusing public money by placing large hoardings in the city.

The Station House Officer (SHO) of Dwarka South Police Station moved an application in the court to supply a copy of the complaint and an application filed by the complainant to register an FIR.

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Neha Mittal on March 11, directed Delhi police to file an FIR on a complaint filed against the three in a matter related to the defacement of public property in the Dwarka area in 2019. It on March 18 allowed the application and directed the SHO to obtain the certified copy and listed the matter for compliance on March 28.

In 2019, a Delhi resident, Shiv Kumar Saxena, had filed a police complaint alleging that the three accused were misusing public funds by placing billboards in various sectors of the Dwarka sub-city, including at traffic intersections and parks.

Mr. Saxena said he was forced to approach the judiciary when the police failed to act on his complaint.