ED files chargesgheet in Delhi Jal Board scam case used for alleged fundings in AAP

New Delhi, April 5

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed a chargesheet in the Delhi Jal Board scam case where the ED probe has shown that proceeds of crime worth over Rs 2 crore were transferred to Delhi Jal Board (DJB) officers and others for funding elections for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). 

The ED had filed a case of money laundering in misusing the water utility services of the Delhi Jal Board. 

The chargesheet names four persons and NKG Infrastructure Ltd as the accused.

As per the case details, the investigation is related to money laundering charges in a July 2022 case, where the DJB allegedly provided a company NKG Infrastructure Ltd with “undue advantages” for supplying, installing, testing, and commissioning electro-magnetic flow meters in “connivance” with NBCC (lndia) Ltd officials.

The officials have stated that one of the accused Anil Kumar Aggarwal, the proprietor of Integral Screw industries, which had taken sub-contract from NKG Infrastructure Ltd, to execute a DJB contract of electro-magnetic flow meters at different sites had entered into a criminal conspiracy with late N K Garg, the then director of NKG Infrastructure Ltd.

An illegal bribe to the tune of Rs 3.19 crore was paid to Jagdish Kumar Arora through his close associate and chartered accountant Tajinder Pal for giving undue favours in award of a DJB contract. Arora, through Tajinder Pal Singh, utilised Rs 1.18 crore for purchase/ booking of properties and incurring personal expenses. The remaining PoC (proceeds of crime) of Rs 2.01 crore was transferred to different persons, including other DJB officers as well as funding for elections to the AAP, as per the probe of ED. 

The project was valued at around Rs 38 crores.