Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal addresses an occasion organised to mark B. R. Ambedkar’s beginning anniversary, in New Delhi on April 14, 2023.
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The CBI has summoned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in reference to the excise policy scam case on April 16, officers mentioned on April 14, 2023.
Mr Kejriwal has been requested to be current on the company headquarters at 11 AM to reply queries of the investigating staff, they mentioned.
The central probe company has already arrested former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in reference to the case. It is alleged that the Delhi authorities’s excise policy for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor merchants favoured sure sellers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a cost strongly refuted by the AAP. The policy was later scrapped.
“It was further alleged that irregularities were committed, including modifications in Excise Policy, extending undue favours to the licensees, waiver/reduction in licence fee, the extension of L-1 license without approval etc.
“It was also alleged that illegal gains on the count of these acts were diverted to concerned public servants by private parties by making false entries in their books of accounts,” a CBI spokesperson had mentioned after FIR filed on August 17, 2022.
