CBI arrests Principal Secretary on Delhi govt’s tip off, twitter hails Kejriwal

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CBI on Tuesday detained a senior senior IAS officer working for the Delhi government and his personal assistant for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 2.2 lakh from a manpower supplier.

Interestingly, the complaint against the accused Sanjay Pratap Singh, an IAS officer of the 1984 batch, was originally sent to the CBI by the chief minister’s office.

Singh was serving as the principal secretary in the department for welfare of scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and minorities.

According to state government sources, he was put under surveillance two months ago after deputy chief minister, Manish Sisodia, reportedly raided his office and found his functioning suspicious.

A CBI spokesperson said, “The bribe was given to the principal secretary’s PA at his office. The PA went downstairs to deliver the bribe to the officer who was waiting in his vehicle when CBI sleuths nabbed them both in the act.”

The CBI move has also come only days after the city government passed anti-graft legislation known as Jan Lokpal Bill, which the Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal described as the ‘strongest’ in the country.

Not so long ago, Kejriwal had sacked his former food and supplies minister, Asim Khan, on live TV on graft charges. Fighting corruption was Aam Aadmi Party’s major poll promise during the assembly elections earlier this year.

Other reports suggested that an AAP volunteer had first approached Kejriwal to complain against Singh prompting the government to tip off CBI, which had put him under surveillance.

The agency has recovered Rs 2.2 lkah from Singh’s PA, Ramesh.

This move has elicited positive reactions for the government on social media.

Here are some of the tweets:

https://twitter.com/spandey2004/status/674273729359122432

https://twitter.com/AkshayMarathe/status/674296420527132672

 

 

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