Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal responded to the ED summons on Thursday, hours before he was supposed to be present at the ED office and called the ED notice illegal.
“The summon notice is illegal and politically motivated. The notice was sent at the behest of the BJP. Notice was sent to ensure that I am unable to go for election campaigning in four states. ED should withdraw the notice immediately,” Kejriwal said. It is not clear whether the reply indicates that Kejriwal would skip the ED date today.
On Wednesday, the AAP stated it learned that Kejriwal will be taken into custody following the interrogation. The party and the Delhi administration will then flee from jail, according to Delhi Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj. The party made it plain that it had a backup plan in place in case Kejriwal was arrested on Thursday. It is unknown, nonetheless, if Kejriwal would respond to the ED summons.
After Manish Sisodia’s bail was refused by the Supreme Court and it was said that one element about the transfer of ₹338 crore was provisionally proven, the case against the AAP in the liquor policy grew stronger.
On Thursday, another AAP minister Raaj Kumar Anand came on ED radar in a money laundering probe. It was, however, a different case coming from a charge sheet filed by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on charges of false declarations in imports for customs evasion of more than ₹7 crores apart from international hawala transactions, sources said.
‘Today is not time for your drama’: BJP leader Shehzad Poonawala
BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala reacted to Kejriwal’s scathing reply to the ED notice and said AAP must realise that today is not the time for Kejriwal’s drama, instead, he should go and answer the ED. “Are the courts against you? Is the Supreme Court making a vendetta against you?
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