The Delhi court on Thursday dismissed a plea seeking CBI probe into the funding of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in alleged violation of provisions of FCRA, saying a complaint is already being probed by an agency.
The court also declined a request for registration of a criminal case against Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia under Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) and conducting day-to-day trial under high court supervision.
A bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw also refused to look into the allegation of advocate M.L. Sharma through a PIL that the party, CM Kejriwal, Mr Sisodia, former AAP members and advocate Shanti Bhushan and Prashant Bhushan were funded by the Central Intelligence Agency through companies and trusts.
“The petitioner has also not been able to make out a case of the likelihood of the investigation against the respondents being not fair and proper, owing to political factors or owing to the investigative agencies being under the administrative control of the respondents,” the court said.
“In the present case, we do not find any reason as to why the investigative agencies to whom the petitioner has already complained would not look into or are not looking into the allegation or would not discover the truth,” the high court added.
The court said it didn’t find any case or the need for any direction to be issued and dismissed the petition with clarification that “neither should the dismissal of this petition be considered as this court having expressed any view on the merits of the allegations of the petitioner nor should any observation herein be read as our having found any merit therein.”
It also took note of the ministry of home affairs reply that nothing was found against AAP in its probe report regarding allegations that it had received offshore funds in violation of FCRA provisions.
The Intelligence Bureau (IB) report had also found nothing against AAP, the Centre had stated.
