Last Updated: March 17, 2024, 11:37 IST
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal. (Image: PTI/Kamal Kishore)
The AAP supremo was granted bail by Delhi’s Rouse Avenue court against arrest for skipping probe agency summons
The Enforcement Directorate on Sunday issued the ninth summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in connection with the excise policy probe asking him to appear before it on Thursday, March 21. Kejriwal has to date skipped eight summonses issued by the agency.
This comes just a day after a Delhi court granted bail to Kejriwal in two complaints filed by the Enforcement Directorate against him for skipping consecutive summons in a money laundering case.
The court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Divya Malhotra also allowed Kejriwal to leave the courtroom.”Offence being bailable, accused Arvind Kejriwal is admitted to bail,” it said.
The court further directed the probe agency to hand over documents related to the complaints to Kejriwal.
For the unversed, the anti-corruption agency filed two complaints before the magisterial court, seeking Kejriwal’s prosecution for skipping multiple summonses issued to him in the case.
The complaint pertains to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor not honouring summonses no. 4 to 8 sent by the federal probe agency under Section 50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), PTI reported.
Earlier, Kejriwal, in an apparent dig at the Centre and ED, said he would build a school for each summon issued by probe agencies against him.
Kejriwal lashed out at the BJP, saying it came to power at the Centre with a massive mandate in May 2014 but pursued a model of ‘vinash’ by targeting opposition parties using the ED and the CBI against them.
He accused the BJP of poaching opposition MLAs to topple their government and also stalling the good work being done by them.
He also claimed that the BJP wanted to finish the Aam Aadmi Party and a plan was being prepared to send him to jail.
(With PTI inputs)