Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)'s three leaders have been jailed by the Enforcement directorate in two different cases of hawala cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Delhi's former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, and AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh has been arrested in connection with the scrapped Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22, and former Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain was accused of having laundered money through four companies allegedly linked to him.
While the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections and the Assembly Polls are on the horizon, and the arrest of three key leaders of AAP, seems like a manipulated move by the investigative agencies, often encouraging an onlooker to believe statements of the Opposition INDIA bloc- the ambiguity of the arrests are still being debated in different courts. AAP lost three of its key leaders within a span of a little over a year to ED arrests, naturally raising suspicion if the elected Delhi chief minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal is the next ‘target’ of the investigative agency.
Here's looking at all cases Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal is facing The Central Bureau of Investigation had earlier called in the Delhi Chief Minister for interrogation in relation to the Delhi excise Policy Scam case. In April this year, the AAP supremo had been summoned as a witness, and not an accused in the excise policy case.
However, AAP MP Sanjay Singh, who was on Wednesday, had not been named as an accused in the chargesheet filed by ED. He was arrested after the investigative agency launched raids at his residence, drawing links with accused turned approver restauranter Dinesh Arora.
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