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Court orders action against Mumbai Congress chief
Wednesday February 22, 2012 07:23:50 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: Spelling
trouble for Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh, the Bombay
High Court Wednesday ordered police to file an FIR against him for
corrupt activities and attach properties belonging to him and his
family members, a lawyer said.
A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Roshan
Dalvi also directed Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik to
investigate the matter and submit his probe report to the court by
April 19, said lawyer Mihir Desai, representing the petitioner,
social activist Sanjay Tiwari.
The court has asked police to initiate the action against Singh
under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The court's order came during the hearing of a PIL filed by Tiwari
last year, who had alleged that Singh had amassed crores of rupees
disproportionate to his known sources of income.
He had also sought to link Singh, a Congress legislator from Kalin
constituency in suburban Mumbai, with Madhu Koda, a former chief
minister of Jharkhand, arrested on charges of corruption and
money-laundering.
The judges said that the PIL and the report submitted by the
Anti-Corruption Bureau to the court should be treated as a FIR.
Despite repeated attempts by IANS, Singh could not be reached for
his comments as he was not answering both his mobile phones.
A former minister of state for home, Singh has been under fire
since last week for the Congress party's miserable performance in
the recently concluded elections to BrihanMumbai Municipal
Corporation (BMC).
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