Here's what we know about the scam so far.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's Principal Secretary, Rajender Kumar, and four others, in connection with a corruption case. CBI sources said that Kumar has been charged with abusing his official position to award contracts to M/s Endeavour Systems Pvt. Ltd. and securing government tenders worth Rs. 9.5 crore between 2007 and 2014 for the company.
The CBI said that Kumar has been booked under Section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act. It said that the arrested official and four others would be produced before the Patiala House Court on Tuesday. According to CBI sources, Kumar has emerged as the kingpin of the 50 crore scam which first started activity in 2006. Kumar had moved an appeal before a special court in March this year seeking the release of his laptop, iPad and cash seized by the CBI. A trial court had in April also ordered the de-freezing of two bank accounts of M/s Endeavour Systems Pvt. Ltd. The Delhi High Court had then stayed the trial court's order allowing for de-freezing of accounts of M/s Endeavour Systems Pvt. Ltd. The CBI had in December last year raided Kumar’s office at the Delhi Secretariat in connection with this case.
What we know about the scam
The FIR claimed that contacts worth Rs 9-and-a-half-crore were given illegally and the CBI probe revealed that the total amount of the scam was worth Rs 50 crore. Rajender Kumar has emerged as the kingpin of the scam which is believed to have started in 2006. The name of the front company was Endeavours System Private Limited started by Kumar and his schoolmate Ashok Kumar. The directors of the company were Dinesh Kumar Gupta and Sandeep Kumar.
In March 2007, Rajender Kumar had initiated a proposal for the empanelment of ICSIL (Joint venture) for the purchase of hardware and software for the Delhi government. In December 2007, when Rajender was CMD of Delhi Transco Ltd, he allegedly brought in Sandeep Kumar as a consultant without any due process, even cancelling the ad looking for consultants.
Following this, based on Sandeep Kumar’s advice, the CDAT project was shelved. A new MIS system was to be started on which Rs 46 lakh was to be spent. This was allegedly done without any justification.
Along with this, the maintenance of the project was given to ICSIL. There was allegedly no fair tendering process, and two forged quotations were obtained. A total of Rs 87 lakhs was spent on this entire process. There was allegedly bigger project planned in August 2009, as they wanted to have a bigger IT solutions platform and they wanted to move to an SAP platform worth around Rs 21 crore. The contract was given to Seal Infotech and allegedly as a quid pro quo, bribes worth Rs 1.7 crore was paid by Seal Infotech to Endeavour Systems Pvt Ltd in the form of fictitious purchases.
With agency inputs
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