The Bureau will submit its final report in this regard to the Lieutenant Governor this week
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has interrogated all of the 85 contractual employees of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) in connection with a case of alleged arbitrary appointment of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) members in the panel. The Bureau will submit its final report in this regard to the Lieutenant Governor this week.
In the last three months, the ACB officers visited the commission's thrice to question DCW Chief Swati Maliwal and to collect the documents related to recruitment.
"A few of the staff members were interrogated in the office, while most were questioned at their homes," said a source in the ACB, adding that the anti-corruption sleuths collected documents related to the appointments three days ago.
The source further said that they have collected all documents pertaining to two complaints — one alleging nepotism and favouritism by Maliwal in appointing employees to the body and the other about "misuse" of official position by Maliwal. As per the complaint, as many as 90 per cent of the contractual staffers in the commission, led by AAP leader Maliwal, were members of her party. It was also alleged that she did not follow any recruitment rules and hired many people for the Delhi office, which comprises three small rooms.
The former DCW Chief Barkha Shukla Singh had filed the complaint regarding the "arbitrary appointment" of the contractual staff, following which an FIR was registered. She further alleged that the commission's three members—Promila Gupta, Farheen Malik and Sarika Chaudhary—were full-time AAP workers.
Singh had also stated that senior advocate and AAP leader from Punjab, HS Phoolka's daughter Prabhsahay Phoolka, was the legal consultant of the commission, drawing a salary of Rs 35,000 per month, even as she is campaigning for the party in Punjab.
Last month, ACB sleuths had questioned Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, after it came to light that a letter from Sisodia's office had authorised DCW as a body with financial autonomy. "As per rules, only the Lieutenant Governor can grant financial autonomy to a body," sources said.
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