Former Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium has written to the NSA asking for a team
Former Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium's request for Intelligence Bureau officers for his inquiry into alleged corruption in Delhi's cricket board DDCA has stunned the Centre, sources have revealed.
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Mr Subramanium, who is heading the investigation ordered by the Arvind Kejriwal government into the DDCA of Delhi and District Cricket Administration, has written to National Security Adviser Ajit Doval asking for officers from the CBI, the Intelligence Bureau and Delhi Police.
Sources have called the request for Intelligence Bureau officers "unprecedented". "A commission of inquiry set up by the state cannot ask for central government officers," home ministry sources say, adding that the National Security Advisor "is not the channel for such a request".
Mr Subramanium's letter asking for central officers is also unusual because the Centre has questioned the validity of the inquiry he heads.
Mr Subramanium told NDTV that he had written to Ajit Doval asking for the names and dossiers of top officers from various departments, to form a Special Investigation Team or SIT.
"I have written to him as he is a distinguished police officer, worked with many eminent people in the field and he will be able to suggest good names. I want security to be a top priority in this issue and he understands the ramifications of the issue as well," Mr Subramanium told NDTV.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal alleged today that Home Minister Rajnath Singh had sent a file on DDCA to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "The PM will now decide whether to allow the inquiry or not," Mr Kejriwal told NDTV.
AAP alleges that Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who headed the DDCA for 13 years till 2013, presided over massive fudging of accounts, illegal deals and forgery. Mr Jaitley has sued Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and other AAP leaders for defamation.
Delhi's ruling party also alleges that a CBI raid on Arvind Kejriwal's top bureaucrat earlier this month was a cover for an attempt to help Mr Jaitley and take away files linked to the DDCA.
Last week, the BJP suspended its lawmaker Kirti Azad, a former cricketer, who all but named Mr Jaitley as he repeatedly spoke about the cricket body allegations in press conferences, on social media and in Parliament.
The Centre says the inquiry set up by the Delhi government is invalid as the state does not have the power to investigate the DDCA, which is registered under a central law.
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