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The liquor protection case pertains to alleged corruption and money laundering in formulating and executing the Delhi authorities’s now-scrapped excise protection
Indian legislation enforcement agency, Enforcement Directorate (ED), made a intrepid say on Monday (Apr 1) that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal named Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) leaders and utter ministers whereas being questioned in connection with the liquor protection case. He reportedly took Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj’s names.
The probe agency acknowledged that Kejriwal said “Vijay Nair didn’t dispute to him nevertheless to Atishi Marlena and Saurabh Bharadwaj and his interplay with Vijay Nair grow to be exiguous [sic].” Vijay Nair is one in every of the accused within the liquor protection case. He’s the ancient communique-in-mark of the AAP.
On March 21, the ED arrested Kejriwal from his intention within the alleged excise protection rip-off. The ED is pursuing Kejriwal in two cases, 1) the Delhi liquor excise protection case, and 2) One other case linked to alleged kickbacks in a Delhi Jal Board contract to a non-public agency.
ED’s custody ended on April 1 nevertheless a local court docket despatched him to jail till April 15.
Sooner than he grow to be shifted to the Tihar Detention center, the court docket allowed him to meet his associate Sunita Kejriwal and ministers Atishi and Bhardwaj.
Kejriwal grow to be equipped this morning in Delhi’s Rouse Avenue court docket sooner than the expiry of his custody with the probe agency. ED informed the court docket that he had been “uncooperative” and grow to be giving evasive solutions, further declaring that the AAP chief didn’t demonstrate the passwords of his digital devices.
Whereas responding to essentially the most up-to-date building, AAP chief Jasmine Shah said that ED’s say “made me snigger”. Shah further added that as soon as Nair grow to be first detained, he already published that he didn’t dispute to Kejriwal.
“Vijay Nair had said this when he grow to be detained. Vijay Nair had said that I attain now no longer dispute to the Chief Minister, nevertheless to Atishi and Saurabh Bhardwaj. Now the ask arises why ED gave the identical assertion after one-and-a-half of years?” Shah asked.
What’s the case all about?
The liquor protection case pertains to alleged corruption and money laundering in formulating and executing the Delhi authorities’s excise protection.
The Delhi authorities had applied the protection on November 17, 2021. It grow to be, nevertheless, scrapped on the tip of September 2022 amid allegations of corruption, which AAP denies.
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In line with the investigating agencies, the income margins of wholesalers were elevated from 5 per cent to 12 per cent below the contemporary protection.
The agencies have alleged that the contemporary protection resulted in cartelisation and those ineligible for liquor licences were favoured for monetary benefits.
AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh are in judicial custody within the case. Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) lawmaker Okay Kavitha grow to be also arrested only lately.
(With inputs from agencies)
