Two days after writing to the Anti Corruption Branch against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's secretary Rajender Kumar, senior bureaucrat Ashish Joshi on Thursday hinted at a nexus between the ACB and the Delhi government.
Speaking to CNN-IBN, the bureaucrat alleged that Kumar had set up a company and awarded work orders to it without proper tender process when he was the secretary at the IT department.
Joshi pointed that no action had been initiated against Kumar even four days after he had filed a complaint against him.
Senior IAS officer Ashish Joshi had written to Anti-Corruption Branch chief MK Meena against Chief Minister's secretary, accusing him of indulging in corruption.
Ashish Joshi, former member-secretary of the Delhi Dialogue Commission (DDC), asked the Lt Governor-appointed ACB Chief MK Meena to probe the role of Kumar when he was with departments of education, IT and Health of Delhi government. Sources in the ACB had said the complaint would be examined and a notice might be issued to Kumar.
In his complaint to Meena, Joshi had alleged that Kumar, as director of Education (from May, 2002 to February, 2005) and later Secretary (IT), Secretary (Health) and Commissioner (VAT), had allegedly set up various companies to award work orders of departments without tenders which caused "financial loss" to the city's government.
Shunted bureaucrat Joshi, who had a public spat with DDC vice-chairman Ashish Khetan, is now working with Union IT Ministry.
"Rajender Kumar formed a company viz Endeavors Systems Private Ltd along with some persons. In 2007, he became secretary (IT) in Govt of NCT of Delhi. During this period, he got this company empanelled with Public Sector Unit (PSU) viz ICSIL, ICSIL is an IT PSU and being a PSU can do work for departments without tenders.
"It is understood that IT related work and SAP licence for more than Rs 50 crores were got done through this modus operandi," Joshi alleged.
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