New Delhi, February 12
RIL chief Mukesh Ambani, Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily, former Union Minister Murli Deora and retired Director General of Hydrocarbons V K Sibal were today named in an FIR by Anti-Corruption Branch of Delhi Government in the Reliance gas issue.
The FIR was registered after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said yesterday that the agency had been told to probe their alleged collusion over hike in prices of natural gas from KG basin. Arvind Kejriwal today wrote a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh requesting him to hold back the decision of increasing gas price till the investigation in the matter was over. Besides, the ministries should be asked to cooperate with the investigative team, he demanded.
The ACB lodged a criminal case under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act. According to the government officials, all four names have been mentioned in the FIR. Kejriwal had yesterday alleged active collusion between the Reliance Infra Limited (RIL) and some ministers of the Central government after receiving a complaint filed by former Cabinet Secretary TSR Subramaniam, former Navy chief Admiral RH Tahiliani, former Union Secretary EAS Sarma and noted Supreme Court lawyer Kamini Jaiswal.
In the letter, Kejriwal requested the Prime Minister to cancel the gas blocks allocated to the RIL for creating artificial scarcity of gas in the country leading to hike in its prices. “The gas lobby has bribed both the Congress and the opposition parties,” said Kejriwal. He alleged that if Reliance Industries was allowed to hike the prices from April 1, it will enjoy a bonanza of Rs 54,000 crore.
AAP to table Jan Lokpal Bill today
- The Arvind Kejriwal government on Wednesday declared it was going ahead with tabling of the Jan Lokpal Bill in the Delhi Assembly on Thursday, ignoring the Union Law Ministry's view that the Centre's prior approval was required
- The hardening of the AAP government's stand came even as the Congress and the BJP held the move by the ruling dispensation as "unconstitutional"
- "There is no rethinking in our position. We are going ahead with tabling of the Jan Lokpal Bill," a senior government official said.
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