The Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) informed a Delhi court today that it has lodged three separate FIRs on a criminal complaint filed against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and others in an alleged PWD scam. ACB informed the court that these three FIRs were registered by ACB on its own on 8th of last month.

Metropolitan Magistrate Court also directed the Assistant Commissioner of ACB to assess the threat perception on the complainant Rahul Sharma after he informed the court that two unknown bikers recently fired gunshots at him. The court said that the recent attack shows that there are serious threat to the security of the complainant and directed the ACB to file a status report on 8th of next month.

The court was hearing a complaint filed by Mr Sharma, the founder of Roads Anti-Corruption Organisation (RACO), seeking direction to police to lodge an FIR against Mr Kejriwal, his brother-in-law Surender Bansal, proprietor of a construction firm, and a public servant for alleged irregularities in the grant of contracts for roads and sewer lines in Delhi. Surender Bansal died recently.