Bassi kin notice to Kejriwal, Sisodia

Delhi police commissioner B.S. Bassi’s brother has issued legal notices to CM Arvind Kejriwal and deputy CM Manish Sisodia in connection with allegations revolving around the top cop’s membership at a housing society, procurement of a flat and later selling it off to his brother.

In the notice issued on Wednesday, the commissioner’s brother, Ravi Bassi, who is a lawyer himself, “cautioned” the CM and his deputy not to take any action on the basis of “false allegations,” said a source.

In the notice, Mr Bassi furnished “corrections” in response to nine particular allegations and said that nobody could “take refuge” under the pretext that the CM, deputy CM and their associates were not aware about the true and correct facts, the source added. “The undersigned (Ravi Bassi) cautions you that threats of implicating him and his brother in false cases or causing harm to them on the basis of false allegations, by coercing various officers subordinate to you to file complaints, would prove to be very dear to you both and these unfortunate officers, as all of you would be answerable to law of the land.

The undersigned as well as law of the land would have no alternative but to take action against those unfortunate officers of the Delhi government for their illegal acts, which they would commit under your dictates,” the notice said. “You both (Kejriwal and Sisodia) have taken recourse only to ‘lies’ in the misinformation campaign launched against the undersigned and his brother,” the notice said. —