New Delhi: The Arvind Kejriwal government on Tuesday plans a move that could bring Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung and former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit under the scanner. The Delhi Cabinet is to decide on setting up an enquiry commission into the 2002 CNG fitness scam.
In 2002, the Delhi government had ordered fitness tests for public transport vehicles using CNG. A firm called ESP India Ltd was awarded the tender, allegedly with the collusion of officials. The company allegedly charged consumers for three tests, while conducting only 2.
On June 6, the Delhi Anti-Corruption Bureau re-opened the scam of Rs 100 crore in which several senior officials of Sheila Dikshit-led Congress government were under scanner.
"The ACB is reopening the 2002 CNG Fitness Scam in which top babus, who had worked under Sheila Dikshit government, are under scanner," top government sources had said.
"During the AAP's previous 49-day stint, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had said that all documents would be provided to CBI after the probe agency sought some documents pertaining to the scam.
"But, the case probe got stuck as Kejriwal government resigned," sources had said, adding that as elected government is now in place in the capital, ACB would probe the matter thoroughly.
The Aam Aadmi Party had, in December 2014, raked up the issue of the CNG fitness scam of 2002 and attacked the "continuing silence" of the central government and Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung on the alleged indictment of top bureaucrats in the city government by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
(With additional information from PTI)
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