Cheating case: Kiran Bedi may land in Tihar Jail that made her a star
The Delhi Police's crime branch on Sunday registered a case against former IPS officer and Team Anna member Kiran Bedi.
The case was registered under sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code at the crime branch police station. DCP (crime) Ashok Chand confirmed that a case had been registered but made no further comments.
It comes a day after additional chief metropolitan magistrate (ACMM) Amit Bansal directed the crime branch to register a case against Bedi on the complaint of Delhi-based lawyer Devinder Singh Chauhan.
Chauhan alleged the former IPS officer had looted various paramilitary forces and state police organisations in the name of imparting free computer training under the banner of her trust, India Vision Foundation.
A source in the crime branch said Bedi would be called for questioning this week. With IPC Section 406 slapped against her, which is cognisable and non-bailable, Bedi may also find herself behind bars inside Tihar, where she worked as the IG (prisons) in the past. For her work there, she was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award.
Chauhan's complaint alleges that Bedi cheated various paramilitary forces and state police organisations through a scheme called 'Meri Police', run by India Vision Foundation.
The scheme was supposed to provide free computer training to the children and families of the CISF, ITBP, CRPF, BSF and state police organisations. However, despite reportedly receiving Rs.50 lakh from Microsoft, Bedi charged around Rs.15,000 from each student.
According to Chauhan's complaint, when Microsoft learnt about the money laundering, it stopped donations to her trust.
Chauhan also claimed the Magsaysay award winner was receiving "huge money from abroad as donation" for her two trusts and it needed to be probed by the enforcement directorate.
Bedi refused to comment on the FIR against her. When Mail Today contacted her for her reaction, she replied: "Read my tweet." Bedi's tweet read: "Having been a cop, I have sound evidence and endurance to deal with this FIR. Time will tell."
On Saturday, when she was informed that an FIR would be filed against her, she had tweeted that it did not come as a surprise. "It only strengthens my resolve to do more," she posted.
Bedi, an IPS officer of the 1972 batch, has served the Delhi Police as a DCP of two districts and also the traffic police. She took voluntary retirement when a junior officer, Y. S. Dadwal, was picked for the post of Delhi police commissioner over her.
Bedi's interrogation by the crime branch will be an interesting scene as several officers who will quiz her have worked under her in the past.
Earlier this year, Anna Hazare acolyte Arvind Kejriwal was in the news following a row over payments worth Rs.9.27 lakh due from him to the government for alleged violation of service norms.
The case was registered under sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code at the crime branch police station. DCP (crime) Ashok Chand confirmed that a case had been registered but made no further comments.
It comes a day after additional chief metropolitan magistrate (ACMM) Amit Bansal directed the crime branch to register a case against Bedi on the complaint of Delhi-based lawyer Devinder Singh Chauhan.
Chauhan alleged the former IPS officer had looted various paramilitary forces and state police organisations in the name of imparting free computer training under the banner of her trust, India Vision Foundation.
A source in the crime branch said Bedi would be called for questioning this week. With IPC Section 406 slapped against her, which is cognisable and non-bailable, Bedi may also find herself behind bars inside Tihar, where she worked as the IG (prisons) in the past. For her work there, she was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award.
Chauhan's complaint alleges that Bedi cheated various paramilitary forces and state police organisations through a scheme called 'Meri Police', run by India Vision Foundation.
The scheme was supposed to provide free computer training to the children and families of the CISF, ITBP, CRPF, BSF and state police organisations. However, despite reportedly receiving Rs.50 lakh from Microsoft, Bedi charged around Rs.15,000 from each student.
According to Chauhan's complaint, when Microsoft learnt about the money laundering, it stopped donations to her trust.
Chauhan also claimed the Magsaysay award winner was receiving "huge money from abroad as donation" for her two trusts and it needed to be probed by the enforcement directorate.
Bedi refused to comment on the FIR against her. When Mail Today contacted her for her reaction, she replied: "Read my tweet." Bedi's tweet read: "Having been a cop, I have sound evidence and endurance to deal with this FIR. Time will tell."
On Saturday, when she was informed that an FIR would be filed against her, she had tweeted that it did not come as a surprise. "It only strengthens my resolve to do more," she posted.
Bedi, an IPS officer of the 1972 batch, has served the Delhi Police as a DCP of two districts and also the traffic police. She took voluntary retirement when a junior officer, Y. S. Dadwal, was picked for the post of Delhi police commissioner over her.
Bedi's interrogation by the crime branch will be an interesting scene as several officers who will quiz her have worked under her in the past.
Earlier this year, Anna Hazare acolyte Arvind Kejriwal was in the news following a row over payments worth Rs.9.27 lakh due from him to the government for alleged violation of service norms.
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