A Delhi court today sought report from city police on a plea seeking lodging of FIR against Anna Hazare and its former team members for allegedly cheating over four crore people by selling them 'Anna SMS cards', whose service was discontinued before the promised one year time, which earned them Rs 100 crore.
Metropolitan Magistrate Akash Jain directed the Parliament street, SHO to look into the complaint and file Action Taken Report by next date of hearing on November 30.
The court's direction came on a criminal complaint filed by a Delhi resident -- Rumal Singh, who alleged that he was part of the India Against Coruption (IAC) movement headed by Anna and his other core members.
He said Anna, Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi, Kumar Viswas, Sanjay Singh, Manish Sisodia and Gopal Rai, who were the core members of the IAC and later fragmented and formed their own political party -- Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), allegedly in collusion with the private companies defrauded more than four crore people.
Singh further said that the SMS card launched in February 2012 ensured the people to provide information about the Hazare-led campaign's activities for a year.
However, the SMS service was discontinued without any convincing reasons from the members of the group.
"Through the sale of these SMS cards AAP has illegally raked in more than Rs 100 crores and thus defrauded more than four crore common people," Singh in his complaint filed through advocate Saliender Pratap Singh said.
