DDCA probe: Chief of Arvind Kejriwal's panel wants to form SIT, writes to NSA
TNN | Dec 29, 2015, 10.34 AM ISTW DELHI: The head of the inquiry commission set up by the Arvind Kejriwal government to probe alleged irregularities in the Delhi and District Cricket Association now wants to form a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to take over the task.
Inquiry panel chairman Gopal Subramaniam has written to National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, asking for officers from the CBI, the Intelligence Bureau and the Delhi Police to form the SIT.
"I have sought 4-5 officers from the CBI, the IB and the Delhi Police each for the commission," Subramaniam told news agency ANI on Tuesday.
Kejriwal has alleged massive financial irregularities and conflict of interest in the DDCA when finance minister Arun Jaitley headed the cricket body for 13 years till 2013. Jaitley has sued Kejriwal and five other Aam Aadmi Party leaders for defamation in the case.
Meanwhile, the centre is set to declare the Subramaniam commission of inquiry as "void ab-initio" (invalid from the outset), according to sources in the government. The former solicitor general, however, feels the formation of the probe panel was in tune with provisions in the Constitution.
Agreeing with Delhi lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung's observation in a recent communication, the home ministry has opined that the Commission of Inquiry Act, 1952, empowers only the Centre and state governments to set up such a probe and the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) is not a "state government" as required by the Act.
The ministry also points out that the DDCA is not a government body and given that it is registered under the Companies Act, the competent agency to probe its affairs is the Registrar of Companies, which falls under the Union ministry of corporate affairs, and not the Delhi government.
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