Unusual ED summons to Arvind Kejriwal for questioning in Delhi excise policy case

The Enforcement Directorate has issued a up to date summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for questioning on December 21 within the excise policy-linked money laundering case, officers said Monday.

He changed into as soon as first known as by the federal agency to seem on November 2, but he didn’t depose alleging that the eye changed into as soon as “vague, motivated and unsustainable in legislation”.

The summons to Kejriwal, also the nationwide convenor of Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP), pertain to questioning within the alleged Delhi excise policy case and for recording his assertion below the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the officers said.

He has to seem on the ED headquarters on December 21, they said. The reach comes days after Delhi authorities officers said Kejriwal will leave for a 10-day Vipassana meditation direction at an undisclosed way from December 19.

AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh are amongst those arrested in this case by the ED and the agency is anticipated to file a supplementary chargesheet within the case quickly.

After the predominant summons, AAP had alleged that Kejriwal would be arrested as fragment of the BJP’s notion to focal point on high INDIA bloc leaders sooner than the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and the ED discover changed into as soon as an strive to develop the get collectively that is in energy in Delhi and Punjab.

The ED has mentioned Kejriwal’s name a pair of times in its chargesheets filed within the case and said the accused possess been in contact with him concerning the preparation of the now-scrapped Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22.

In a single occasion, the agency claimed in its payment sheet that it had recorded the assertion of Butchibabu, an accountant allegedly linked to BRS chief Good enough Kavitha, in which he said that “there changed into as soon as a political working out between Good enough Kavitha and chief minister (Arvind Kejriwal) and the deputy chief minister (Sisodia).”

“In that job, Good enough Kavitha also met Vijay Nair (AAP communications in-payment arrested within the case) on March 19-20, 2021.” In a single more occasion fascinating arrested accused Dinesh Arora, the ED said he knowledgeable it that he met Kejriwal as soon as at his location.

Equally, the ED chargesheet said, YSRCP MP Magunta Sriniavasulu Reddy also held conferences with Arvind Kejriwal who welcomed his entry into the Delhi liquor trade.

It had said that Buchibabu and one more accused Arun Pillai possess revealed that they and Vijay Nair possess been working with the “red meat up and sanction” of Arvind Kejriwal and AAP chief and the then Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia for all excise policy-associated actions, alongside side formulation in addition as implementation.

It had also alleged that Vijay Nair “arranged a video call thru facetime (a video calling facility on iPhone) on his cell phone for one more arrested accused Sameer (Mahandru) and Sh Arvind Kejriwal, the effect Sh Arvind said to Sh Sameer that, Vijay is his boy and that Sh Sameer should composed belief him and persist with it with him.”

Kejriwal had then rubbished the contents of the ED complaint announcing it has “filed 5,000 chargesheets below the tenure of the contemporary authorities.”

“How many individuals possess been sentenced? The general cases filed by ED are spurious and they’re used to descend governments or develop them. ED does not file cases to eradicate corruption. They attain it to buy MLAs, descend governments,” Kejriwal had said.

It is alleged that the Delhi authorities’s excise policy for 2021-22 to grant licenses to liquor traders allowed cartelisation and favoured obvious dealers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a payment over and over refuted by the AAP.

The policy changed into as soon as attributable to this fact scrapped and the Delhi lieutenant governor quick a CBI probe, following which the ED registered a case below the PMLA.