Arvind Kejriwal to remain in jail: Your 10-point cheat sheet on Delhi liquor policy case

Image Source : INDIA TV Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is lodged in Tihar jail.

Delhi liquor coverage case: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who’s at present lodged in Tihar jail, will proceed to stay in jail because the Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed his plea difficult his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case linked to the alleged excise rip-off. According to AAP, the Delhi CM will method the Supreme Court towards a excessive courtroom order. Meanwhile, the AAP is hopeful that the Supreme Court will present aid to Kejriwal in the identical means it granted bail to AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh just lately.

Here’s your 10-point cheat sheet to this story

The Aam Aadmi Party nationwide convenor was arrested on March 21, hours after the Delhi High Court refused to grant him safety from coercive motion by the Enforcement Directorate. The subsequent day, the Rouse Avenue courtroom in Delhi had remanded him within the federal anti-money laundering company’s custody until March 28.

On March 28, the Rouse Avenue Court prolonged the ED custody of Kejriwal until April 1, saying the company offered “sufficient reasons”, akin to the necessity for him to be confronted with materials collected and statements recorded, to allow his additional custodial interrogation.

On March 28, Kejriwal himself made submissions earlier than Delhi’s Rouse Avenue courtroom. He stated that there have been solely 4 statements, together with C Arvind, the place he claimed that “he gave some documentation to Manish Sisodia in my presence”. “Several bureaucrats and MLAs came regularly to my home. Are these four statements made by different people sufficient to arrest a sitting Chief Minister?” Kejriwal stated.

On April 1, he was despatched to judicial custody until April 15. The ED had sought 15-day judicial custody of Kejriwal, saying he was “totally uncooperative”. The ED stated that Kejriwal’s statements have been recorded over 5 days however he was discovered to be giving evasive replies and concealing materials info throughout custodial interrogation.

AAP leaders, together with Manish Sisodia (at present in jail) and Sanjay Singh (out on bail), together with Bharat Rashtra Samithi chief Okay Kavitha (at present in jail), have been additionally arrested within the case.

The Supreme Court on April 2 granted Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh bail in a cash laundering case associated to the Delhi excise coverage rip-off after the Enforcement Directorate stated it had no objections. Singh was lodged within the high-security jail within the nationwide capital since October 13, 2023.

Okay Kavitha’s judicial custody was prolonged on April 9 by two weeks within the Delhi excise policy-related cash laundering case after the ED alleged that she made makes an attempt to affect the witnesses and tampered with proof. Special choose for ED and CBI instances Kaveri Baweja took observe of ED’ submission that Kavitha made makes an attempt to affect the witnesses and tampered with the proof.

Kavitha, the daughter of former Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao, has been accused of being a key member of the “South Group”, which allegedly paid Rs 100 crore to the ruling AAP in Delhi kickbacks for its Goa election marketing campaign through one of many arrested businessmen in return for an enormous share of liquor licences.

The case pertains to the alleged corruption and cash laundering in formulating and executing the Delhi authorities’s excise coverage for 2021-22 which was later scrapped. The case originated from a report introduced by Delhi Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar to Lieutenant Governor (LG) Vinai Kumar Saxena in July 2022, highlighting purported procedural deficiencies within the growth of the coverage. The report stated “arbitrary and unilateral decisions” taken by AAP chief Manish Sisodia in his capability as Excise Minister had resulted in “financial losses to the exchequer” estimated at greater than Rs 580 crore.

Delhi Lieutenant Governor beneficial a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities within the formulation and implementation of the liquor coverage. Subsequently, the ED registered a case beneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).