ED arrests Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal after 2 hours of questioning
Excise policy case updates:
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) after 2 hours of questioning in connection with an excise policy-linked money laundering case. An ED team reached Kejriwal’s residence to serve him a summons earlier in the evening. The Delhi Police heightened security around his residence following the developments. Earlier today Delhi high court refused to grant protection to Kejriwal from any coercive action by the agency.
Delhi BJP chief says after CM’s arrest by ED- “Kejriwal should resign immediately “
The BJP demanded Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s immediate resignation after he was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in an excise policy-linked money laundering case. “Today every citizen of Delhi is satisfied that the chief minister, implicated in allegations of corruption, has finally been arrested,” Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva told reporters. “The arrest of Arvind Kejriwal is the defeat of corruption. Kejriwal should resign immediately,” he said. Kejriwal’s arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the first of a sitting chief minister, came hours after the Delhi High Court refused to grant him protection from any coercive action by the agency. Agency officials said the 55-year-old AAP national convenor would be produced before a court here on Friday and the ED would seek his custody for interrogation in the case. Delhi BJP president Sachdeva said the liquor scam started in Delhi in 2021-22, and one revelations after another exposed how corruption took place and money was laundered.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday was arrested in connection with the excise policy case, said Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Atishi.
A team of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) reached the residence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday evening to question him in connection with the excise policy case. As many as 4-5 phones and two tablets have been seized by the ED from the CM’s residence.
This came hours after the Delhi High Court denied any interim protection from arrest to Kejriwal in connection with the summons issued to him by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the liquor policy scam case.
Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal’s has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in excise policy-linked money laundering case. AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal becomes the first sitting chief minister to have been arrested.
Earlier the Delhi High Court had rejected a plea seeking protection for the Delhi CM from coercive action in the excise policy-linked money laundering case.
Following this the Enforcement Directorate began conducting searches at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence on Civil Lines. The Delhi Chief Minister had till now skipped nearly nine ED summons issued to him in the money laundering case.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav says, “Those who are themselves imprisoned in the fear of defeat, what will ‘they’ do by imprisoning someone else? BJP knows that it will not come to power again, and due to this fear, it wants to remove the opposition leaders from the public by any means at the time of elections, arrest is just an excuse. This arrest will give birth to a new people’s revolution.”
The (central) government sitting in Delhi has become arrogant and is not letting opposition leaders live. First Hemant Soren, and now Arvind Kejriwal has been arrested. Such misuse of ED and CBI has never been done by any government.”, said Shiv Sena (UBT) spokesperson Anand Dubey.
Trinamool Congress condemns the arrest of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal. “We vehemently condemn the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal, an elected CM, especially when EC is in charge & MCC is in place”, said TMC leader Derek O’Brien