In a setback for the Aam Aadmi Party chief Sanjay Singh, he was not allowed to take oath at the moment because the Rajya Sabha MP after Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar didn’t allow the identical. Singh is going through an Enforcement Directorate probe within the alleged Delhi Excise Policy case. Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar stated that the matter is at present with the Privileges Committee.
Singh was arrested on October 4, 2023, by the ED within the Delhi Excise Policy case and was charge-sheeted subsequently. However, Rouse Avenue had allowed Singh to take oath as MP Rajya Sabha in custody. The court docket additionally prolonged the judicial custody of Sanjay Singh until February 17.Â
Earlier, Singh had moved a plea in search of interim bail to attend the continuing Parliament session and to take the oath. However, for the reason that court docket allowed him to take oath in custody, he withdrew his plea. Singh was earlier granted permission to file his election nomination and to gather his membership certificates from the returning officer.
Singh’s bail utility is pending earlier than the High Court. A bench of Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma, after listening to the arguments made by either side, had reserved the order. ED has alleged that Singh was concerned in making a particular goal car to launder the proceeds of crime that might have been generated from the enterprise arising out of the coverage adjustments as conspired by him and his co-conspirators.
Sanjay Singh was then concerned in buying, possessing, concealing, dissipating and utilizing proceeds of crime generated from the Delhi Liquor Scam through the coverage interval of 2021-22, stated ED.
Meanwhile, Delhi Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj accused Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar of performing in opposition to the provisions of the Constitution after he didn’t permit Sanjay Singh to take oath as an MP. “I think the Chairman of Rajya Sabha is going against the constitutional provisions of this country. Article 99 says that every member shall take the oath. This matter of privileges was related to his membership, which has already expired….You cannot deny him an oath in his new term…I think they are just politicizing it,” stated Saurabh Bhardwaj.
