New Delhi: The Aam Admi Party (AAP) government is acting in a “preconceived manner” and creating an “unnecessary impasse” in order to prevent Delhi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) from functioning in accordance with law, the Centre told Delhi High Court today. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said this in an affidavit before a single judge bench of Justice V P Vaish on an application filed by Delhi government seeking directions against the ACB to receive a complaint from the Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) and register FIR to probe graft charges against a DDA employee.
The bench took the affidavit on record and posted the matter for further hearing on September 9 along with other similar cases, reports PTI. In the detailed affidavit, the Centre sought rejection of the AAP government application terming it as “misonceived” and “frivolous”. It also denied the allegations levelled in the application. “It is stated that petitioner is acting in a preconceived manner in order to prevent the ACB Delhi to function in accordance with law,” the Centre’s reply said. It said the ACB was bound to act in accordance with the law and cannot expand its juridiction suo motu and start registering complaints with respect to employees who are not officials of Delhi government, as it would violate the scheme of the Constitution and the Centre’s notification.
