The Aam Aadmi Party escalated its confrontation with Jung over the recent murder of NDMC officer M M Khan, allegedly at a hotelier's bidding, after he refused to accept a bribe to extend the lease of his establishment.
"His (Jung's) role is suspicious in the case. Why had he written to NDMC seeking action against Khan? We demand that the LG be arrested and sacked from his position," AAP's Delhi Unit Convener Dileep Pandey told a press conference.
It has come to light that a day after Khan was murdered for allegedly refusing to take bribe from Delhi hotelier Ramesh Kakkar, Jung's office had purportedly sent Kakkar's petition against Khan to NDMC asking for "action as per law".
Khan, an estate officer of New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), was shot dead in Jamia Nagar a day before he was scheduled to pass the final order on the lease terms of hotel 'The Connaught' which was functioning on a property of the civic body, on May 16.
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She said investigating officers of these cases will also be summoned by the nine-member committee whose all members are Aam Aadmi Party MLAs.
She said the issue was serious as two former Union Ministers and a prominent industrialist were involved in the cases.
The development came a day after AAP MLAs Somnath Bharti
and Rajendra Pal Gautam submitted their complaints in connection with the five cases to assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel, demanding action against Jung and Meena.
Yesterday, 12 AAP MLAs had gone to the LG's official residence demanding registration of an FIR against Jung and Meena without a formal appointment. They later claimed that LG "refused" to meet them.
The ruling party legislators had then approached Goel and submitted their complaints to him. Goel had forwarded the complaints of the two MLAs and those received from public to the Petitions Committee of the House.
"You (LG) have been protecting Smt Dikshit in the FIRs through your inaction. Shri Meena, imposed by the Union government as ACB chief, has also colluded with you in this criminal activity.
"Kindly forward my letter to ACB with a direction that Shri Meena and yourself should be made co-accused in these four FIRs," a letter signed by Gautam had said.
Delhi Police's chief spokesperson Taj Hassan said, "Unfortunately this case is now being politicised. We are investigating the case without any pressure or bias. We have taken all relevant documents from NDMC. The allegations being levelled through certain section of the media are baseless."
Joint Commissioner of Police (southeastern range) R P Upadhyay said BJP MP Maheish Girri and NDMC vice chairman Karan Singh Tanwar had no role in Khan's murder.
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"Girri had said he had not written any letter involving Khan. Now his lie has been exposed," Chadha said.
"The LG intervened into the matter twice in a week through NDMC. This clearly indicates that the hotelier, who is the prime accused in Khan's murder, had a political patronage. The accused cannot commit such a big crime without any political patronage.
"There should be a probe to ascertain who gave political political patronage to the accused," Sisodia said.