Delhi’s Anti Corruption Branch arrested 3 people including AAP MLA’s brother-in-law Om Singh, AAP Model Town MLA Akhilesh Pati’s Personal Assistant Shiv Shankar Pandey alias Vishal Pandey, and Price Raghuvanshi for allegedly taking bribes for tickets of Municipal Elections in Delhi.
All of them were arrested under sections of the Corruption Act and bribery in choices. According to the information, cash worth Rs 33 lakhs were recovered from them.
ACB officers said that they arrested the 3 on the ground of the complaint of Gopal Khari who had to pay 35 lakhs to Akhilesh Tripathi and Rs 20 lakhs to Wazirpur MLA Rajesh Gupta as a bribe. AAP worker, Shobha Khari, wife of Gopal Khari had demanded a ticket for which MLA Tripathi allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 90 lakh in exchange for it.
ACB officers caught the accused Om Singh, Shiv Shankar Pandey, and Prince Raghuvanshi red-handed and arrested them by setting a trap at Gopal’s residence.
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Cash Rs 90 Lakhs for a ticket to an AAP worker
According to OpIndia, Gopal in his complaint to the Additional CP claimed that on 9th November he went to Tripathi’s office seeking a ticket for his wife, Shobha Khari, and was informed to pay Rs 90 lakhs for it. He also told Tripathi that he required some time to arrange the cash and assured him that he’d pay the money after getting the ticket.
Om Singh had gone to Gopal’s office on November, 10 and asked him to talk to Tripathi. Tripathi on a call told him that he will not get a ticket if doesn’t pay Rs 90 lakhs. Somehow with the help of relatives and friends, he could arrange Rs 25 lakhs. latterly, he asked Gopal to pay that cash to a person in a red shirt near the stall where he was called. Gopal gave the cash while Om Singh was in his auto.
On November 12, Gopal gave a further Rs 20 lakhs to Rajesh Gupta. He was allegedly informed to arrange the remaining after he gets his wife’s ticket but when the list of the candidates was released, his wife’s name wasn’t there. later, Om Singh told him to back the cash and gave assurance to him that his wife would get the ticket the next time.
He said, “Rajesh Gupta (MLA), Akhilesh Tripathi (MLA), and his brother-in-law Om Singh have misused their power. They’ve blackmailed me in the name of giving me a ticket.”
BJP leveled a big charge against AAP ahead of MCD polls
Post ACB’s arrests in ‘cash-for-ticket’ case, the BJP’s Lok Sabha MP, Ramesh Bidhuri claimed that 90 of the tickets were sold by AAP in lieu of backhanders which ranged from Rs 70 lakhs to Rs 1 crore. He abstained from showing any evidence in this regard and went ahead to hit out at Kejriwal for taking the moral high ground on corruption.
BJP MP contended that how should we anticipate such public representatives to serve the people if they’re distributing tickets in the lieu of bribes? The same Kejriwal would say to bring a law that when a corrupt MLA is elected, the Right to Recall must be enacted. He’d say before 2015 that the corrupt MLA should be removed in the mid-term. He also asked Kejriwal what action he will take against the Model Town MLA.
