New Delhi: In double whammy for Kiran Bedi, a key member of Team Anna, a Delhi court on Saturday ordered lodging of an FIR against her for allegedly misappropriating funds meant for her NGOs and rejected her complaint seeking further probe into Commonwealth Games-related graft cases. The court refused to entertain a complaint filed by Bedi and others including yoga guru Ramdev and Arvind Kejriwal, another key Team Anna member, for a further probe in CWG graft cases.
The same judge also ordered registration of an FIR against her in the afternoon after taking note of a complaint of a Delhi-based lawyer Devinder Singh Chauhan who alleged she “looted” various paramilitary forces and police organisations in the name of imparting free computer training under her trust’s banner.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Amit Bansal ordered the crime branch of Delhi police to register an FIR against Bedi on the complaint of Chauhan.
“The application is disposed off with the direction to the DCP crime branch to register an FIR,” the ACMM said, adding “the complainant will submit all related documents and annexures (in support of his allegations) duly signed and attested within 24 hours.”
The court, while ordering registration of the FIR, did not heed to contentions of Delhi police that the complainant lawyer had no ground and if there was any misappropriation of funds, the donors, who gave money to Bedi’s NGOs India Vision Foundation and Navjyoti Foundation, should have moved the complaint.
“For the purpose of siphoning money for herself, Kiran Bedi entered into a donation agreement with Vedanta according to which Rs 6,000 out of the total money of Rs 20,000 was to be paid by Vedanta to her two trusts (India Vision Foundation and Navjyoti Foundation) on the false ground that Kiran Bedi had arranged for the land and electricity for the said centre (training centre) for running their activities,” the complainant said.
He alleged that the facility of land and electricity were arranged by the police organisation and Bedi had nothing to do with these arrangements.
Chauhan claimed that Bedi is getting huge money from abroad as donation to her two trusts and it needs to be probed by the Enforcement Directorate.
He alleged that Bedi is liable to be prosecuted for various offences including sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust), 477A (falsification of accounts) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC.
