File FIR against CM, says court

Sep 01, 2013 |

Age Correspondent

New Delhi

A city court on Saturday directed that a FIR be registered against chief minister Sheila Dikshit and others for allegedly misusing government funds for a 2008 pre-Assembly poll advertisement campaign.
Special judge Narottam Kaushal pronounced the order in an open court on separate complaints filed by BJP leader Vijender Gupta and RTI activist Vivek Garg against Ms Dikshit. Both alleged in their complaints that Ms Dikshit misused government funds to the tune of `22.56 crores on an advertisement campaign ahead of the 2008 Assembly polls.
They sought registration of FIR against Ms Dikshit and others for alleged criminal breach of trust (Section 409 IPC), criminal misappropriation of public funds and criminal misconduct under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
However, Delhi government’s director of prosecution B.S. Joon said that the Lokayukta has not pointed out dishonest intention for misappropriating public money by Ms Dikshit and since the Lokayukta has sent the recommendation to the President, his decision would be final in the matter. The complainants had said that the two status reports filed by the Delhi police on the complaints have wrongly concluded that no offence is made out against Ms Dikshit.
The BJP leader had said that he had filed a complaint before Delhi Lokayukta Justice Manmohan Sarin who had on May 22 indicted Dikshit for allegedly misusing government funds for carrying out an advertisement campaign with a “political purpose” ahead of the last Assembly polls.

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