The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) has sent notice to Sheila Dikshit asking her to join the investigation in connection with the alleged Rs. 400-crore water tanker scam even as the former Delhi Chief Minister dubbed the charges as “politically motivated.”

Special Commission of Police and ACB chief M.K. Meena on Thursday said, “Notices have been sent to Sheila Dixit and few Delhi Jal Board officials. They shall be questioned on July 26.”

The notices were sent on Wednesday under the provisions of section 160 of the CrPC. “As I have said (in the past) this is a politically motivated thing, that’s all,” Ms. Sheila Dikshit said. A case was registered by the ACB on June 20 in connection with the alleged scam linking Ms. Sheila Dikshit.

The ACB had received two complaints with regard to the alleged scam and those named in the complaints included Ms. Sheila Dikshit and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Mr. Meena had then said that both Ms. Dikshit and Mr. Kejriwal will be quizzed in connection with the matter.

A week prior to registration of the case, the Delhi Government had sent a report of a fact-finding committee on the scam to Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung. Delhi BJP leader Vijender Gupta had also filed a complaint with Mr. Jung accusing Mr. Kejriwal of “suppressing” the committee’s report for 11 months.