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Anna SMS cards: Criminal complaint filed against Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal and others

New Delhi: A criminal complaint has been filed against Anna Hazare and the erstwhile Team Anna members for allegedly cheating over four crore people by selling them 'Anna SMS cards'.Metropolitan Magistrate Akash Jain directed the

Hazare, as well as Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi, Kumar Viswas, Sanjay Singh, Manish Sisodia and Gopal Rai, who were the core members of the IAC and later fragmented and formed their own political party - Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), defrauded more than four crore people allegedly in collusion with the private companies, he said in his complaint.

Advocate Saliender Pratap Singh, appearing for the complainant, said that the SMS card launched in February 2012, ensured the people to provide information about the Hazare-led campaign's activities for a year.

The SMS service, however, was discontinued without any convincing reasons from the members of the group.