Arvind Kejriwal arrested in liquor case policy.
Delhi’s chief minister, has filed a complaint in the Delhi High Court, challenging his detention for six days and his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in relation to the money laundering case involving the alleged liquor policy scam.
On March 21, at about 9 p.m., Kejriwal was arrested by the ED. He was under ED custody until yesterday, March 28, as ordered by the trial court.
Hours after the high court denied him protection from the central agency’s coercive action, the ED had detained Kejriwal. The chief minister has knocked on the high court’s doors three times in the last week.
He had already filed a motion to set aside and terminate all actions, including the ED summonses that had been issued against him. As an opposition leader, a partner in the INDIA bloc, and a “vocal critic” of the governing party, Kejriwal said in that appeal that ED had been “weaponized” since it was under the jurisdiction of the Centre.
The legal team for the Aam Aadmi Party argues in the request that Kejriwal should be released immediately since the arrest and custody were unlawful.
AAP officials, meantime, have declared that the chief minister of Delhi will head the government while incarcerated. Bhagwant Mann, the chief minister of Punjab and a leader of the AAP, told PTI that a court order will be sought to establish an office in jail to oversee the Delhi administration.
The lawsuit concerns suspected money laundering and corruption during the development and implementation of the excise policy for 2021–2022 by the Delhi government, which was subsequently abandoned. Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh, prominent AAP leaders, are being held in judicial custody over the matter.
Kejriwal has asked that the matter be put on the urgent list. Hours after a division bench of the Delhi High Court declined to issue orders affording him temporary protection from coercive action, Kejriwal was brought before the trial court after being apprehended by the central investigative agency
The ED had sent Kejriwal nine summonses, which he had ignored. Leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh are now being held in judicial custody due to their allegations in the case.
After being hauled into jail, Kejriwal promptly filed an urgent appeal with the Supreme Court opposing his incarceration. However, the same was eliminated earlier today. Furthermore, he has already filed a lawsuit in the Delhi High Court challenging the summons that he received from the CID.
He’s also filed an application for provisional protection. The hearing on the subject is scheduled for April 22.
Earlier, the ED had accused Kejriwal of disobeying a summons by filing two criminal cases against him at the city’s Rouse Avenue Courts. Kejriwal has ignored the summons, arguing that it is against the law
The excise policy, according to the Department of Economic Development (ED), was implemented as part of a scheme to provide some private companies a 12 percent wholesale business profit; however, this condition is not included in the minutes of the Group of Ministers (GoM).
Additionally, the Central Agency has asserted that Vijay Nair and other persons conspired with South Group to provide distributors huge profit margins. The agency said that Nair was speaking for Manish Sisodia and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
