DCW office searched by Anti-Corruption Branch

New Delhi, Aug 18 (PTI) Delhi’s Anti-Corruption Branchtoday carried out searches at Delhi Commission for Womenoffice here in connection with complaints by a former chiefsecretary and an ex-chief of the panel. ACB officials claimed that they had intimated the DCWthat they will be coming to collect certain documentsregarding the complaints. Former DCW chief Barkha Shukla Singh, an ex-MLA fromCongress who was heading the panel till last year, had filed acomplaint with ACB recently alleging "nepotism andfavouritism" by its current chairperson Swati Maliwal inappointing employees to DCW. She had claimed that several AAP supporters were givenplum posts in the women’s panel, an allegation strongly deniedby Maliwal. In another complaint, former Delhi Chief Secretary OmeshSehgal had alleged that Maliwal was misusing her officialposition by issuing a showcause notice to a club of which heis a member. A woman had claimed that Sehgal had harassed her bybumping into her constantly in the club’s swimming pool. Thewoman had claimed that she and her husband were suspended fromthe club after they filed an FIR against Sehgal. DCW had sought a reply from the club on the suspension ofthe couple’s membership and the club’s failure to forward thewoman’s complaint to the local complaints committee. Maliwal could not be reached for her reaction on the ACBsearches. PTI SLB MPBRT