Via PTI
NEW DELHI: AAP MLA Akhilesh Pati Tripathi on Thursday seemed sooner than the Anti-Corruption Department (ACB) in reference to the ballot price tag bribery case, officers stated.
On Tuesday, the ACB arrested Tripathi’s brother-in-law and his two mates for allegedly tough Rs 90 lakh as bribe for arranging a price tag to a birthday celebration employee’s spouse within the civic polls.
A senior ACB respectable stated Tripathi was once requested to seem at 11 am. He’s being wondered, the respectable stated.
The incident got here to mild on Monday after an individual named Gopal Khari, who claimed to had been related to the AAP as an energetic employee since 2014, approached the ACB with the grievance, in step with an respectable observation on Wednesday.
Khari met Tripathi, the Style The town MLA, remaining Wednesday (November 9) with a request for a price tag from AAP for his spouse to contest the approaching Municipal Company of Delhi elections from Ward No.69 in Kamla Nagar, the ACB stated.
Tripathi allegedly demanded Rs 90 lakh to safe a price tag for Khari’s spouse. Khari paid Rs 35 lakh to him.
He additionally allegedly gave Rs 20 lakh to AAP MLA Rajesh Gupta on Tripathi’s insistence, in step with a grievance.
Khari had instructed Tripathi the remainder quantity can be paid upon getting the price tag, it stated. On Sunday, the complainant didn’t in finding his spouse’s identify within the listing of applicants launched by way of the AAP.
Later, Tripathi’s brother-in-law Om Singh contacted Khari and confident him that the price tag can be given to him within the subsequent election. Singh additionally introduced to go back the bribe, it mentioned.
At the intervening evening of Monday and Tuesday, the ACB laid a entice on the Khari’s place of dwelling, the place Singh and his mates — Shiv Shankar Pandey and Prince Raghuvanshi — have been stuck once they got here to go back Rs 33 lakh from the cash won on behalf of Tripathi.
The 3 have been arrested beneath the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Indian Penal Code. Pandey is the private assistant of Tripathi, the ACB stated.
The complainant has additionally submitted audio and video recordings of his purported dealings all the way through the cost and go back of the bribe quantity. An investigation is directly to unearth the entire case and to assemble proof, it added.
NEW DELHI: AAP MLA Akhilesh Pati Tripathi on Thursday seemed sooner than the Anti-Corruption Department (ACB) in reference to the ballot price tag bribery case, officers stated.
On Tuesday, the ACB arrested Tripathi’s brother-in-law and his two mates for allegedly tough Rs 90 lakh as bribe for arranging a price tag to a birthday celebration employee’s spouse within the civic polls.
A senior ACB respectable stated Tripathi was once requested to seem at 11 am. He’s being wondered, the respectable stated.
The incident got here to mild on Monday after an individual named Gopal Khari, who claimed to had been related to the AAP as an energetic employee since 2014, approached the ACB with the grievance, in step with an respectable observation on Wednesday.
Khari met Tripathi, the Style The town MLA, remaining Wednesday (November 9) with a request for a price tag from AAP for his spouse to contest the approaching Municipal Company of Delhi elections from Ward No.69 in Kamla Nagar, the ACB stated.
Tripathi allegedly demanded Rs 90 lakh to safe a price tag for Khari’s spouse. Khari paid Rs 35 lakh to him.
He additionally allegedly gave Rs 20 lakh to AAP MLA Rajesh Gupta on Tripathi’s insistence, in step with a grievance.
Khari had instructed Tripathi the remainder quantity can be paid upon getting the price tag, it stated. On Sunday, the complainant didn’t in finding his spouse’s identify within the listing of applicants launched by way of the AAP.
Later, Tripathi’s brother-in-law Om Singh contacted Khari and confident him that the price tag can be given to him within the subsequent election. Singh additionally introduced to go back the bribe, it mentioned.
At the intervening evening of Monday and Tuesday, the ACB laid a entice on the Khari’s place of dwelling, the place Singh and his mates — Shiv Shankar Pandey and Prince Raghuvanshi — have been stuck once they got here to go back Rs 33 lakh from the cash won on behalf of Tripathi.
The 3 have been arrested beneath the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Indian Penal Code. Pandey is the private assistant of Tripathi, the ACB stated.
The complainant has additionally submitted audio and video recordings of his purported dealings all the way through the cost and go back of the bribe quantity. An investigation is directly to unearth the entire case and to assemble proof, it added.