ED files 1st chargesheet in Delhi Jal Board case, names 4 individuals & 1 company as accused

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New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed its first chargesheet in connection with a money-laundering probe linked to alleged irregularities in the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), official sources said on Saturday...

Four individuals and a company have been named as the accused in the chargesheet former DJB chief engineer Jagdish Kumar Arora, contractor Anil Kumar Agarwal, former NBCC general manager D K Mittal, one Tejinder Singh and NKG Infrastructure Limited...

The ED has alleged that bribe money generated from corruption in a contract issued by the DJB was passed on as election funds to the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi..

An FIR lodged by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which accuses Arora of awarding a DJB contract to NKG Infrastructure Limited for a total cost of Rs 38 crore despite the fact that the company did not meet the technical eligibility criteria, is the basis of the ED case.. The ED arrested Arora and Agarwal in the case on January 31...

An ED statement has alleged that Arora received bribe in cash and in bank accounts after awarding the contract to NKG Infrastructure Limited and passed on the money to various people managing the DJB affairs, including persons connected with the AAP...

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