Delhi L-G Jung appoints top cop as head of ACB, AAP fumes

Janjivan Bureau
New Delhi: New tussel between Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal came into the light. LG appointed a Joint Commissioner in the Delhi Police, MK Meena, to head the capital’s Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) over and above SS Yadav, the officer Mr Kejriwal had picked for the job.
Mr Jung appointed Mr Meena and seven other officers from the Delhi Police to the ACB today. Mr Meena is senior to Additional Commissioner SS Yadav and so will supersede him and head the Bureau.Jung and the AAP government have been on a collision course on a number of issues including authority over ACB.
Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia slammed Jung for creating a new post of joint commissioner and questioned all the appointments.
“What is behind the conspiracy to create a new post of joint commissioner and appoint your own officer?
“Has it been done due to fear that ACB will probe the CNG fitness scam,” Sisodia tweeted. He alleged that the officer appointed by the LG to head the ACB had tried to “trap” him by trying to make suicide of a farmer in rally in Jantar Mantar in April as a murder.
Jt Commissioner Meena was in charge of the investigation into the death of a Rajasthan farmer Gajendra Singh at an Aam Aadmi Party rally in Delhi in March this year. The police had alleged in an FIR or First Information Report that AAP workers clapped and cheered when Gajendra was on the tree, and instigated him. They also say that AAP volunteers obstructed them at every step, and prevented them from saving the farmer.
Sources said the AAP government in Delhi had no knowledge of this latest move by the L-G, who represents the Centre in the capital. They also said that the post of a Joint Commissioner of Police does not exist in the ACB.
Last week, the L-G had objected to Mr Kejriwal getting four police officers from Bihar on deputation to Delhi’s ACB. A press statement from Mr Jung’s office said no appointment to the ACB could be made without his consent.