The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday instructed the Supreme Courtroom that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s conduct led the investigation officer to type the satisfaction that he’s responsible of cash laundering within the alleged Delhi Liquor Coverage rip-off. The probe company additional mentioned that Kejriwal was solely arrested after Delhi Excessive Courtroom refused interim aid to him.
ED additional tells court docket in its affidavit that AAP chief prevented interrogation by not remaining current earlier than the company regardless of being summoned 9 instances
The ED mentioned it is able to disclose materials which fashioned the idea of arrest. The affidavit filed in prime court docket mentioned that over 170 approx Cellphones had been modified & destroyed by 36 individuals in the course of the interval of rip-off.
ED mentioned Kejriwal’s plea difficult his arrest was devoid of advantage and liable to be dismissed. And that the fabric that fashioned the idea for satisfaction of the investigating officer for arresting him had been perused by completely different courts.
The company mentioned Kejriwal’s petition will not be a plea in search of to be launched on bail after completion of the investigation, however an enchantment towards the rejection of a writ petition difficult the arrest in the course of the pendency of the investigation when the prosecution criticism is but to be filed.
The ED additional tells the highest court docket that the arrest of an individual, nonetheless excessive he could also be, for fee of offense based mostly on materials, can by no means violate the idea of free and truthful elections.
“Treating a politician in another way from an strange felony in a matter of arrest would quantity to arbitrary and irrational train of energy of arrest which might violate the precept of equality enshrined beneath Article 14 of the Structure,” the affidavit states.
Kejriwal is at the moment lodged in Tihar jail beneath judicial custody. On April 15, the apex court docket sought a response from the ED by April 24 on his plea difficult his arrest in a money-laundering case linked to the now scrapped Delhi Liquor Coverage.
The Delhi Excessive Courtroom had upheld Kejriwal’s arrest as authorized. Following which, he approached the Supreme Courtroom. In final listening to Supreme Courtroom issued discover to ED and sought response. Earlier this week, a Delhi court docket prolonged Kejriwal’s judicial custody until Could 7.