ED to produce CM Arvind Kejriwal before Delhi court in excise policy case today
Arvind Kejriwal, who is currently under ED custody in an excise policy-linked money laundering case, will be produced before the city's Rouse Avenue court at 11 am today, April 1. The court on March 28. extended Kejriwal's ED custody till April 1.
The Enforcement Directorate arrested the AAP supremo on March 21 in an alleged liquor policy case. The investigative team filed a remand request on Thursday, claiming they need more time to question Delhi CM to confront him with other individuals. The ED informed the court that "statements of some AAP Goa candidates are being recorded." “He is deliberately not cooperating with us," said ASG SV Raju who is representing the ED while asserting that Kejriwal's statements have been recorded but he gave evasive replies.
Kejriwal, making submissions for himself in the court, said a smokescreen of the AAP being corrupt has been created before the nation. "I am named by four witnesses in the excise policy case. Are 4 statements enough to arrest a sitting CM?" he added.
“It is a political conspiracy and the people will give an answer to it," the AAP convenor said when he was brought to the courtroom in Rouse Avenue court at the end of his ED custody on March 28. On March 31, top INDIA bloc leaders including Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, and Tejashwi Yadav organized a protest against Kejriwal's ED arrest at Ramlila Maidan in the national capital. Delhi CM's wife Sunita Kejriwal was also present at the ‘Save Democracy’ rally.
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