The Enforcement Directorate has filed a grievance in the Rouse Avenue Court in the nationwide capital against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for skipping the summons for questioning in the liquor policy case. The court will hear the matter on February 7. This comes after Kejriwal skipped the fifth summons issued to him by the company just lately. Kejriwal had skipped 4 summons earlier in the final 4 months.
“Arvind Kejriwal is not appearing even after being given summons. He is a public servant,” ED stated.
The Aam Aadmi Party has alleged that the ED summons against Kejriwal had been politically motivated claiming that he could also be arrested to cease him from campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections. The AAP has maintained that its authorized crew is finding out the summons issued to Kejriwal in reference to the excise policy linked cash laundering case.
Liquor policy case
It is alleged that the Delhi authorities’s excise policy for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor merchants allowed cartelisation and favoured sure sellers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a cost repeatedly refuted by the AAP. The policy was subsequently scrapped and Delhi Lt Governor VK Saxena advisable a Central Bureau of Investigation probe, following which the ED registered a case below the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
