New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is about to subject contemporary summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after he refused to look earlier than it within the ongoing probe into the 2021-22 Delhi excise coverage, ThePrint has learnt by means of sources within the company.
This would be the fourth summons to the Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) chief, who has to date skipped showing earlier than investigating officers to document his assertion, questioning the legality of the final three.
In its final summons, the ED had requested Kejriwal to look earlier than it Wednesday. On Thursday, the Delhi CM held a press convention to current his causes as to why he hasn’t confirmed up on the company’s headquarters to date.
Calling the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and ED probes within the excise police case pretend, Kejriwal dismissed the conversations round a “liquor scam” in Delhi. He requested why the companies had discovered no proof regardless of two years of investigation and arrests of a number of of his aides.
“If corruption actually took place, where did the crores of rupees go? Did they vanish in the air?” he requested on the 4 minutes-long press convention.
“They have arrested multiple leaders of AAP in this fake case and have not found any evidence against them and now they are hell bent on arresting me. Honesty is my biggest strength and they want to destroy my honest image by sending me summons,” the Delhi CM stated.
Kejriwal additional stated that his attorneys have clarified to him that these summons are unlawful. “I have explained in great detail why the summons are illegal. They (ED) are yet to respond to my questions which means that they don’t have any explanation to my allegations and conceded that their summons are illegal. Should I follow illegal summons? If there will be a legal summon, I will honour it,” he added.
The AAP chief additional alleged that the BJP doesn’t need to probe the case however reasonably desires to cease him from campaigning. “They have sent me summons right before the Lok Sabha Elections. The CBI had called me eight months back and I had deposed before them, answered all their questions. Now asking me to appear just two months before the general elections is a way to call and arrest me to stop me from campaigning.”
Additional attacking the BJP, he stated that the occasion “is not arresting corrupt people but brazenly misusing ED and CBI to dismantle other parties and include their leaders”.
“Politicians who join their party are let off but people like Manish Sisodia, Vijay Nair and Sanjay Singh are behind bars because they refused to join their party,” Kejriwal added.
(Edited by Gitanjali Das)
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