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The Rouse Avenue Court on March 11 ordered the FIR to register an FIR in the misuse of government money on former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
The Ministry of Home Affairs approved an inquiry against former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Minister Satendra Jain. The Ministry on Thursday informed the Lieutenant Governor Secretariat that investigation has been approved on both in the corruption case.
Manish Sisodia is facing investigation in the Excise Policy and Satyendra Jain money laundering case. Both are currently out on bail. Following the approval of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the investigation process in both cases is likely to intensify.
Earlier on March 11, the Rouse Avenue Court had ordered the FIR to register an FIR in the misuse of government money on former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Kejriwal is accused of misusing public money to get big hoardings for campaigning.
While hearing a petition seeking an FIR on Kejriwal and two other leaders Gulab Singh and Nitika Sharma, the court has directed the Delhi Police to register a case. The court has also sought the status report of the case from March 18 from the police.
Orders have been ordered to register a case on the same hoardings.
Petition filed in court 6 years ago In 2019, a petition was filed in a Delhi court. It was alleged that Arvind Kejriwal, former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Gulab Singh and Councilor Nitika Sharma from Dwarka Nitika Sharma have misused public money by putting big hoardings in the entire area. The lower court then dismissed the petition and refused to allow the FIR.
In January 2024, the Directorate of Information and Publicity also asked the AAP to return Rs 163.62 crore including interest to misuse public money for political advertisements.
BJP’s charge- Expendicted on publicity than the budget of the scheme
- The BJP had alleged in January 2025 that the AAP had spent more than the budget of some schemes on its publicity. The BJP claimed that Rs 54 crore was released for the Business Blasters Yojana, while Rs 80 crore was spent in its campaign.
- At the same time, a budget of Rs 1.9 crore was kept for the Mentor scheme, while the publicity of the scheme was spent Rs 27.9 crore. There was a budget of Rs 77 lakh for the stubble management scheme, while the publicity was spent 28 crore rupees.
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