NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Wednesday refused to grant any relief to chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who had filed a plea against his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the excise policy case.
The court granted ED seven days to respond and fixed April 3 as the next date for hearing.
Kejriwal, in his plea before the Delhi high court, had asserted that the ED’s actions violated his fundamental rights.The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief has contended in his plea that the ED has not been able to prove his guilt.
“The DOE has at the time of arrest has failed to establish that Petitioner is guilty of committing activities stipulated under Section 3, i.e., be it one of concealment, possession, acquisition, use of proceeds of crime as much as projecting it as untainted property or claiming it to be so,” Kejriwal’s legal team pleaded.
Kejriwal has further criticized his arrest without being questioned, suggesting a pre-meditated and political motive behind the proceedings.
Earlier today, Kejriwal’s wife Sunita, in a video message, said that her husband would do a “big expose” on the alleged excise policy scam in court on March 28 and also present evidence.
She said that when she met the Delhi CM in the ED custody, Kejriwal told her that the central agency has conducted more than 250 raids in connection with the “so-called liquor scam” in the last two years but “not a single paisa” has been found in any of the raids so far.
The ED arrested Kejriwal on March 21 in connection with the Delhi Excise Policy case linked to a money laundering case and remanded the next day to the ED till March 28.
The case pertains to alleged irregularities and money laundering in framing and implementing the Delhi excise policy case 2022, which was later scrapped.
Former deputy chief minister Sisodia and AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Singh were arrested last year in relation to the Excise Policy case, while former minister Jain was arrested in a case related to money laundering.
The court granted ED seven days to respond and fixed April 3 as the next date for hearing.
Kejriwal, in his plea before the Delhi high court, had asserted that the ED’s actions violated his fundamental rights.The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief has contended in his plea that the ED has not been able to prove his guilt.
“The DOE has at the time of arrest has failed to establish that Petitioner is guilty of committing activities stipulated under Section 3, i.e., be it one of concealment, possession, acquisition, use of proceeds of crime as much as projecting it as untainted property or claiming it to be so,” Kejriwal’s legal team pleaded.
Kejriwal has further criticized his arrest without being questioned, suggesting a pre-meditated and political motive behind the proceedings.
Earlier today, Kejriwal’s wife Sunita, in a video message, said that her husband would do a “big expose” on the alleged excise policy scam in court on March 28 and also present evidence.
She said that when she met the Delhi CM in the ED custody, Kejriwal told her that the central agency has conducted more than 250 raids in connection with the “so-called liquor scam” in the last two years but “not a single paisa” has been found in any of the raids so far.
The ED arrested Kejriwal on March 21 in connection with the Delhi Excise Policy case linked to a money laundering case and remanded the next day to the ED till March 28.
The case pertains to alleged irregularities and money laundering in framing and implementing the Delhi excise policy case 2022, which was later scrapped.
Former deputy chief minister Sisodia and AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Singh were arrested last year in relation to the Excise Policy case, while former minister Jain was arrested in a case related to money laundering.
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