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Kejriwal’s Swati Booked For Making 85 AAP Workers “Maalaamaal”

[New Delhi]Kejriwal’s Swati Booked For Making AAP’s 85 Workers “Maalaamaal” .An FIR against DCW chief Maliwal Is Lodged
The Anti Corruption Branch has registered an FIR against DCW chief Swati Maliwal in connection with alleged irregularities in recruitment in the women’s panel.
“A case under sections 13(D) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 409 (criminal breach of trust) and 120B (punishment of criminal conspiracy) of the IPC has been registered against Maliwal,”
Former DCW chief Barkha Shukla Singh, Lodged a complaint alleging that several AAP supporters were given plum posts in the women’s panel.
Singh, in her complaint, had listed the names of 85 people who, she claimed, got jobs “without requisite credentials”.
The ACB had been probing the matter for the last two-three months and based on the questioning of Maliwal’s employees, it was found that due procedure “was not followed in appointments,” Total of 91 appointments were found to be made without allegedly following due process.
Yesterday, Maliwal was interrogated for over two hours by ACB officials in connection with the allegations made by Barkha Singh.
Maliwal was also handed over a questionnaire seeking her reply to 27 queries within a week’s time.
Maliwal termed the probe as an “attempt” to “silence” the women’s panel that has been raising a lot of questions.
“In one year, we have handled 11,500 cases and attended 2.25 lakh calls on helpline number 181.
The former DCW chief handled only one case.
Maliwal had alleged that Singh also appointed members to the panel during her tenure despite handling only one case in eight years.
“We followed the due process for appointing members to the panel. While she (Singh) appointed wives of IAS and IPS officers without giving an advertisement for recruitment.
We have all the documents and we will give them to the ACB,” she had said.