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Saurabh Bharadwaj says House panel led by him investigated matter first; Saxena suspends two more officials
Saurabh Bharadwaj says House panel led by him investigated matter first; Saxena suspends two more officials
Even as Lieutenant-Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena suspended two more officials on charges of corruption on Friday, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) accused the L-G of trying to “spin a narrative of a land scam in north Delhi to project Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a bad light”.
The allegation came in the wake of disciplinary proceedings being launched against four Sub-Divisional Magistrates (SDMs), on the instructions of Mr. Saxena, over their alleged involvement in a land scam. The officials have been accused of “selling evacuee property to private entities for pecuniary benefits” during their tenure as SDM, Alipur, between 2015 and June 2021. One of the suspended officials was posted as a Deputy Secretary at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s office.
AAP chief spokesperson and chairman of Privileges Committee of the Delhi Legislative Assembly, Saurabh Bharadwaj, said the matter had been examined by the committee first but the L-G attempted to “hide this fact”.
“The L-G office did not tell the media the full reason for suspending the four SDMs and officers. I had raised the issue of the land scam in the Assembly during question hour,” Mr. Bharadwaj said.
‘L-G being misled’
“This isn’t a matter of corruption by the Deputy Secretary at the…
