Arvind Kejriwal Skips Summons, Tells Probe Agency To "Take It Back"
Arvind Kejriwal will now not visit the Enforcement Directorate's workplace nowadays for giving his statement at the Delhi liquor policy case, resources said. Mr Kejriwal became scheduled to seem before the principal probe employer's Delhi workplace at 11 am, however he wrote a letter to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) asking to take lower back the summons to him, calling it "illegal and politically stimulated".
The ED is likely to problem fresh summons to Mr Kejriwal, who is going to Madhya Pradesh to marketing campaign for the Aam Aadmi party (AAP) beforehand of the state election.
A person can skip ED summons a maximum of three instances, and then the ED can get a non-bailable warrant. The ED also can issue summons beneath the stringent Prevention of money Laundering Act, or PMLA.
The ED's notice is "illegal and politically motivated, sent at the behest of the BJP," Mr Kejriwal stated in the letter, asking the same vital probe enterprise that arrested his former deputy Manish Sisodia to "take again the awareness right now".
"The stated summons does no longer specify whether or not i'm being summoned as an person or in my reputable capability as leader Minister of Delhi or as country wide Convenor of AAP and looks to be in the nature of a fishing and roving inquiry," Mr Kejriwal stated inside the -page letter to the ED.
The Aam Aadmi party (AAP) has also alleged the centre desires to arrest Mr Kejriwal in a politically prompted case.
The ED's case towards the AAP leaders got extra wind inside the sails after the supreme courtroom rejected Mr Sisodia's bail request over a money path of ₹ 338 crore, which the court said has been tentatively installed.
This money is stated to be the profits of private parties who were given liquor licence underneath the now-scrapped policy. The investigators do not forget the profits as proceeds of crime.
Responding to Mr Kejriwal's letter to the ED, the BJP said the AAP has indulged in corruption and its pinnacle leaders should answer questions raised via the court docket and probe groups.
"Arvind Kejriwal's claim that it's miles politically encouraged makes no feel. The perfect court docket denied bail to Manish Sisodia, and cited a tentatively established money path of ₹ 338 crore. Even the Congress has accused the Kejriwal government of corruption. Is Kejriwal pronouncing all of them are politically inspired?" BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla advised newshounds nowadays.
Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said the ED is performing with none regard to the guideline of regulation because it has been summoning every person it desires without courtroom oversight.
"Even for the duration of colonial times, the police wanted a warrant to look human beings as it changed into understood that if law enforcement officials are allowed to raid humans with out court warrant, then it might change into dadagiri (bullying). Today, the ED does not use warrants. Its officers decide whose house to raid," Mr Bharadwaj, the AAP MLA from south Delhi's greater Kailash, stated in a video declaration.
"whilst will the ED raid the homes of BJP leaders whose names have come up in corruption allegations? So many reports are available," he added.
The pinnacle AAP leaders together with Mr Kejriwal are accused of corruption in framing a new liquor sale policy, which changed into scrapped after the Delhi leader secretary flagged alleged rule violations in July 2022.
Following this record, Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena asked the significant Bureau of research (CBI) to investigate the matter.
If arrested, Mr Kejriwal will be the third senior leader from the AAP to be taken into custody within the liquor coverage case. Mr Sisodia turned into arrested in February and the celebration's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh met the equal destiny remaining month. Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain had additionally been arrested in a money laundering case final 12 months.
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