New Delhi: While assuring a fair probe into the alleged irregularities in the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) involving the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Senior advocate Gopal Subramanium has informed the Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal that the Inquiry Commission set up by the government was legally valid.
In a letter to Mr Kejriwal, accepting the offer to be the Chairman of the one-man Commission, Mr Subramanium disputed the reported stand of the Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung that the commission of inquiry appointed by the Delhi government was not valid.
Without making any comments to media reports to the effect that the Lt. Governor considers that the appointment of the Commission was not proper since Delhi is not a State but a Union Territory, Mr Subramanium pointed out that the minutes of the Cabinet meeting (to set up the probe panel) as well as the proceedings of the Legislature had been forwarded to the Lt. Governor and he must have initialed his perusal of them.
Mr Subramanium said “this receipt of information both from the Cabinet and allowing the Legislature to proceed indicates that the Lt. Governor, prima facie, has consented to the appointment of the Commission.”
