Mukesh, Moily named in FIR

• AAP govt to reward Delhi power bill defaulters
• HC asks Kejriwal to justify stadium session
• AAP cries 'katleaam' over ’84 riots; eye Sikh votes
• To support Medha if she contests Lok Sabha polls
• Party to release first list of LS candidates soon

New Delhi: Petroleum minister Veerappa Moily, RIL chief Mukesh Ambani, former Union minister Murli Deora and retired Director General of Hydrocarbons V K Sibal were on Wednesday named in an FIR by Anti-Corruption Branch of Delhi government in the Reliance gas issue.

The FIR by the ACB was registered a day after Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said the agency has been told to probe their alleged collusion over hike in prices of natural gas from KG basin.

Names of Moily, Ambani, Deora and Sibal figured in the FIR, sources said.

Kejriwal wrote a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, requesting him to keep in abeyance decision to hike gas price from April 1 till the probe in the case is completed.

The ruling AAP in Delhi has announced a mega-reward for defaulters on power bills. Those who did not pay for electricity between October 2012 and April 2013 will owe only half of what they were billed. The government will supply the six crores to cover that massive discount.

The announcement was made by senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia, who said that Delhi residents who supported the party's campaign against allegedly inflated power prices, would be given 50% subsidy and would be charged no penalty.

Mr Sisodia, a minister, said that households who did pay their bills during this period will not be refunded.

In October 2012, AAP urged residents of Delhi to state in writing that they would not pay their water and power bills to protest against over-priced utilities. 10 lakh people signed the petition; 24,000 defaulted on their bills. On Sunday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal says he will present his anti-graft Jan Lokpal Bill to lawmakers for their review - not at the state legislature, but at a city stadium, with the public in attendance. On Wednesday, the Delhi High Court has asked his government to explain, by Wednesday, why the stadium gathering is justifiable. "You need to answer some Constitutional questions," it said.

Days after raking up the 1984 anti-Sikh riots issue, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is seeking to claim credit for bringing the public focus back on the tragedy.

The ruling AAP has put up posters in parts of the city, claiming to bring to justice the perpetrators behind the riots. The posters read: “1984 ke Sikh katleaam ka ab hoga insaaf (justice will now be done for the massacre of Sikhs in 1984)”.

The posters carry Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's photo and his name.

The posters surfaced after the Kejriwal government announced its move to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the 1984 riots cases. AAP is willing to extend its full support to social activist Medha Patkar if she contests the Lok Sabha polls.

"If she (Patkar) wants to contest Lok Sabha polls, our party will extend its support to her. Now it is upto her to decide on whether she wants to contest elections", senior party leader and Political Affairs Committee (PAC) Sanjay Singh said.

"Even if she wants to contest as an independent, we will extend our full support to her," Singh said. Poet-turned politician Kumar Vishwas, former banker Meera Sanyal, party leader Mayank Gandhi and senior advocate H S Phoolka will be among the AAP candidates for the Lok Sabha elections.