Friday, May 11, 2018

Kejriwal’s nephew arrested for graft 

Jatin Anand 

 
NEW Delhi, May 11, 2018 00:00 IST


Vinay Bansal after he fainted at the Tis Hazari court in Delhi on Thursday. He had to be hospitalised.Sushil Kumar Verma
Linked to Rs. 4.9 cr. scam in construction of drainage network: anti-graft agency

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s nephew Vinay Bansal was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Branch on Thursday for his involvement in an alleged Rs. 4.9 crore scam related to the construction of a drainage network in north-west Delhi awarded to his firm by the PWD three years ago.

More arrests, ACB sources claimed, including those of serving Delhi government officials, were in the offing. Mr. Bansal, who according to the ACB owns 50% stake in M/s Renu Construction Company along with his late father Surender Bansal, was picked up from his home in northwest Delhi’s Pitampura area at 4 a.m. “The decision to arrest him was made on the basis of the CPWD report received by us recently,” a senior official from the ACB, who asked not to be named, said when asked about the timing of the arrest, considering that the FIRs had been registered a year ago.

The FIRs were registered on the basis of a complaint by Rahul Sharma, founder of NGO Roads Anti-Corruption Organisation, who alleged irregularities in the grant of contracts for roads and sewer lines in 2015-16.

Sent to judicial custody

Mr. Bansal was sent to a day’s judicial custody by a city court, where he fainted and had to be hospitalised, according to the ACB official.

He was was arrested on the basis of an assessment report putting his firm in the dock “on several counts” in relation to the quality of construction material used, financial irregularities and overlooking of procedural penalties as per the CPWD in the construction of a drain located in Bakoli village, north-west Delhi.

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