The Delhi Courtroom On Thursday issued summon to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on a recent plea moved by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for not complying with the summons issued to him within the cash laundering case associated to the alleged liquor coverage rip-off.
Further Chief Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Divya Malhotra of Rouse Avenue Courts has now listed the matter for listening to on March 16.
The Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) nationwide convenor has to this point skipped 8 summons by the central probe company. ED raised this recent grievance in opposition to him for skipping final 4 summons underneath Part 50 of the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA).
Earlier, the ED filed a grievance in opposition to Kejriwal for not attending the primary three summons issued to him within the cash laundering case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi excise coverage. That case can be listed for listening to in that case will probably be held on March 16.
The Delhi CM has referred to as all of the ED summons unlawful. Whereas skipping the eigth summon Kejriwal knowledgeable ED that he could possibly be questioned by way of a videoconferencing hyperlink after March 12.
In a press convention on March 4, Kejriwal stated that that his social gathering has not finished something mistaken nor are they attempting to cover.
AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh, social gathering communications in-charge Vijay Nair and a few liquor businessmen have allready been arrested by the ED on this case.
The ED has contended that AAP used proceeds of crime to the tune of about Rs 45 crore in Goa Meeting Elections.
The Delhi excise coverage was scrapped after it got here underneath scanner for allegedly granting licences to liquor merchants in a method that it allowed cartelisation and favoured sure sellers who had allegedly paid bribes for it. The AAP has refuted these claims.
After the coverage was scrapped, the Delhi Lieutenant Governor V Okay Saxena really helpful a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the irregularities in its formulation and implementation. Following which, the ED registered a case underneath the PMLA.