Published: Feb 01, 2016, 05:49 PM (IST)
Edited: Feb 01, 2016, 05:49 PM (IST)
New Delhi: A court on Monday allowed union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley‘s plea seeking summoning of records of Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) in a criminal defamation complaint filed by him against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Khangwal allowed Jaitley’s plea seeking summoning of records of DDCA from December 1999 to December 2003, when he was the association’s president. The court which is going to hear the matter on February 3, is currently recording statement of complainant’s witnesses in the case. Kirti Azad is likely to face stringent action for his graft allegations against Union
Kejriwal, following a Central Bureau of Investigation raid at the Delhi secretariat, had alleged that the officials searched his office, and they were looking for a file on a probe of DDCA. The CBI denied raiding Kejriwal’s office. Kejriwal has also alleged that there was corruption in DDCA when Jaitley was heading it, and the latter had subsequently filed a defamation case against the Delhi chief minister. DDCA corruption: Arun Jaitley should not be afraid of probe if he is innocent, says Arvind Kejriwal
Earlier, PTI reported that suspended BJP MP Kirti Azad is likely to face stringent action for his graft allegations against Union Minister Arun Jaitley as the party’s Central Disciplinary Committee has found him “failing in maintaining discipline” and “causing embarrassment to the party”. “We have submitted the report to the party high command observing that he has crossed the ‘Laxman Rekha’ and it is for the Central Parliamentary Board to take further action,” Ganeshi Lal, chairman of the disciplinary committee said. Lal, who was here as the central observer for the state BJP chief elections, said that the “function of the committee is only to ascertain that whether the utterances made by Azad dented the image of the party, caused embarrassment to the leaders or created discomfort or unpleasantness and our observation is that he was failing in maintaining discipline and hurt the party by his utterances.”
