New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday refused to look earlier than the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in reference to the alleged Delhi liquor rip-off case, calling the summons “false” and “illegal”. He additionally accused the BJP-led central authorities of utilizing the ED and different businesses to harass and intimidate him and his celebration leaders forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Addressing a press convention, Kejriwal stated that he has defined to the ED why their summons is unlawful and that he is not going to obey an illegal order. He stated that his largest power and asset is his honesty and that he has all the time fought for the nation.
“In the last two years, all the agencies of BJP have conducted many raids but not a single penny was found. If there is corruption then where is the money? AAP leaders are kept in jail in such fake cases. Now BJP wants to arrest me. My biggest strength and asset is my honesty,” he stated.
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He additionally questioned the timing of the discover, saying that the BJP desires to cease him from campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections. He stated that he had cooperated with the CBI once they had known as him eight months in the past, however now the ED is attempting to implicate him in a 31-year-old case.
“My lawyers told me that the summons was illegal, I wrote the question and sent it to ED. Should I obey an unlawful summon? If a legal summons comes, I will comply with it. Why am I being called just before the Lok Sabha elections? Eight months ago I was called by CBI, I went and gave all the answers. Today they want to stop me from campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections,” he added.
Kejriwal additionally alleged that the BJP is utilizing the ED to lure opposition leaders into becoming a member of their celebration and that they’re concentrating on sincere leaders like Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh and Vijay Nair. He appealed to the folks to help him in his struggle towards the BJP’s “politics of hatred and vendetta”.
“Today, opposition leaders are being included in the BJP through ED. Whoever joins his party, all his matters get resolved. Today honest leaders like Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh and Vijay Nair have been put in jail. I have always fought for the country. Every breath of mine is for the country. We have to save the country together. I am fighting against them with all my heart, I need your support,” he stated.
The ED had issued a 3rd summons to Kejriwal on December 22 final 12 months, asking him to look earlier than the company on January 3. The summons was in relation to a case registered by the ED in 2019 beneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) towards some liquor corporations and authorities officers for allegedly inflicting a lack of Rs 1,000 crore to the Delhi authorities by evading excise obligation.
Kejriwal, in his reply to the ED, had expressed his readiness to cooperate with the investigation however declined to look on the summoned date, calling the discover “illegal”. He had additionally questioned the company for not responding to his earlier replies when the summons was despatched to him and he had raised sure queries on the character of the company’s investigation.
In his written reply to the ED, the Delhi CM had stated “As a premier investigating agency the non-disclosure and non-response approach adopted by you cannot sustain the test of law, equity or justice. Your obstinacy is tantamount to assuming the role of judge, jury and executioner at the same time which is not acceptable in our country governed by the rule of law.”
“In these circumstances, I urge you to respond to my earlier response and clarify the position so as to enable me to understand the real intent, ambit, nature, sweep and scope of the purported inquiry/investigation for which I am being called” he had added in his response.
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