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Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, former Delhi PWD Minister Satyendra Jain (on the right).
A case of corruption has been registered against AAP leader Manish Sisodia, former Delhi PWD Minister Satyendra Jain in Delhi. This case of corruption is related to the construction of classroom and school building. Investigation by the Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) has revealed that during the tenure of AAP, there was a huge scam of Rs 2,000 crore in the construction of 12,748 classes/buildings.
The cost of construction of classroom/building was shown to be increased. Apart from this, not a single work was completed within the stipulated period. Consultants and architects were also appointed arbitrarily for construction work. Through these, the cost of construction was increased. ACB has registered an FIR after getting permission under Section 17-A of the Prevention of Corruption Act in this case.
The contract was also given to 34 contractors of the party itself The ACB investigation has revealed that the classrooms were created in the form of semi-finished structure (SPS), which is 30 years old, but its cost is seen equal to RCC (PUCCA) classrooms, which is 75 years old. The project contract was awarded to 34 contractors, most of whom were associated with the AAP party.
5 lakh classroom priced to Rs 24.86 lakh The ACB report said that a classroom could be constructed for Rs 5 lakh, but this cost was delivered to Rs 24.86 lakh per class. The report also states that the cost of construction of SPS was shown to Rs 2292 per sq ft, which is about 2044 to 2416 per sq ft. Corruption complaints against AAP leaders were lodged by BJP spokesperson Harish Khurana, MLA Kapil Mishra and Neelkanth Bakshi.
Manoj Tiwari accused financial irregularities Please tell that BJP MP Manoj Tiwari had also filed a complaint in 2019, alleging corruption in the construction of additional classes in government schools of Zone 23, 24 and 28. The BJP MP had said in his complaint that the government spent Rs 28 lakh in a classroom, while it takes only Rs 5 lakh to build a classroom.
How to increase the cost without tender In this case, a total cost of 326.25 crores was increased without a new tender, out of which 205.45 crore was spent only due to ‘Richar Specification’. ACB has started a comprehensive investigation in this case, so that the role of the culprits can be decided by bringing out the truth of the entire scam. ACB chief Madhur Verma said that the role of unknown government officials and contractors is also being investigated in the investigation.
Screws of investigative agencies on 3 big leaders of AAP …
Earlier, corruption cases have been registered against AAP convenor and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Satyendra Jain, who are under investigation. Let’s take a look at these matters.
1. Arvind Kejriwal
About two months ago, the Rouse Avenue Court ordered an FIR against several leaders including Kejriwal. It is alleged that Arvind Kejriwal, former MLA Gulab Singh and Councilor Nitika Sharma from Dwarka 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.
2. Manish Sisodia
Manish Sisodia is out on bail in the liquor scam case. He came out of Tihar Jail after 17 months on August 9, 2024. The Supreme Court granted him bail in the CBI and ED case related to the Delhi liquor policy scam.
Sisodia was arrested by CBI on February 26, 2023 in a corruption case and ED on March 9, 2023 in the money laundering case. He was in jail since then. Sisodia resigned as a minister on February 28, 2023.
3. Satyendra Jain
On February 18, President Draupadi Murmu gave permission to run a money laundering case against Satyendra Jain in a scam related to the purchase and sale of land. Actually, at the time when the case was framed against Satyendra Jain, he was an MLA.
Because of this, the President’s approval was necessary to run a case against him. The ED had alleged that Satyendra made money laundering through 4 fake companies. The money through them was used to buy properties in the name of many people between February 14, 2015 and May 31, 2017.
Many companies owned by Jain took Rs 4.81 crore in lieu of cash transfer to entry operators of Kolkata through hawala. In this, CBI registered a case in 2017. After this ED started investigation.
