CBI summons Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal for questioning in liquor policy case

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New Delhi, April 14, 2023: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has summoned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for questioning in the liquor policy case.

The probe agency has summoned the chief minister on April 16.

 

Meanwhile, the AAP has alleged that the central government is exerting pressure after it got a national party status.

AAP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, while addressing a press conference, said that a conspiracy has been hatched to arrest Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sanjay Singh said, “The day Arvind Kejriwal had said in Delhi Assembly that PM’s friend’s black money is the PM’s black money, I told him it’s your number next. They will do everything to cover PM’s corruption.”

In February, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Delhi Deputy CM and AAP leader Manish Sisodia. He was arrested after being questioned for over eight hours in the Delhi excise policy case.

Sisodia was arrested under Section 120 b (criminal conspiracy), 477 A (intent to defraud) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

In July last year, Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena recommended a CBI probe into the allegations that the new excise policy gave "undue benefits" to private liquor vendors. Later in August, the CBI raided over 20 locations in Delhi-NCR and Punjab. Manish Sisodia’s house was among the locations that were raided.

ARVIND KEJRIWAL’S PA, AAP LEADER QUESTIONED

Apart from CBI, the Enforcement Directorate has questioned Arvind Kejriwal’s personal assistant Bibhav Kumar in connection with the excise policy case.It was reported that the ED questioned Arvind Kejriwal’s personal assistant Bibhav Kumar about who spoke or visited the Delhi chief minister in connection to the new excise policy.

Bibhav, Sisodia and others are accused of using, destroying and changing 170 phones to receive kickbacks worth thousands of crores in the excise policy case.

The ED has also quizzed AAP leader Jasmine Shah in the case. Like Bibhav, Jasmine Shah too was quizzed on meetings that are linked to the formulation of Delhi’s new excise policy, which is now scrapped.

Jasmine Shah is the vice-chairperson of the Dialogue and Development Commission of Delhi. She was one of the four people to be removed by Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena from the board of private discoms.

Courtesy: India Today