Arvind Kejriwal will not have to seem in courtroom when the matter is subsequent heard on April 1
New Delhi:
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been granted bail by Delhi’s Rouse Avenue courtroom in opposition to arrest for skipping probe company summons within the alleged Delhi excise coverage rip-off. He was requested to furnish a private bond of Rs 15,000 and a safety bond of Rs 1 lakh for the bail.
The Delhi Chief Minister violated Part 174 of the Indian Penal Code – which offers with disobeying a authorized order to be at a sure place in individual or by agent – when he skipped the Enforcement Directorate’s repeated summons within the alleged Delhi excise coverage rip-off.
The courtroom summoned the AAP chief after the Enforcement Directorate, which desires to query Mr Kejriwal in reference to the Delhi excise coverage case, advised the courtroom that the Chief Minister skipped eight summons issued underneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act.
Arvind Kejriwal won’t have to seem in individual for the subsequent listening to of the case on April 1.
Skipping the ED summons, Mr Kejriwal accused the Narendra Modi authorities of utilizing central businesses to focus on Opposition leaders.
The ED’s newest summons got here late in February and requested the Chief Minister to seem for questioning on March 4. Nonetheless, Mr Kejriwal, who skipped the “unlawful” summons, mentioned he would seem solely via video-conferencing.
However the monetary probe company insisted he seems bodily and mentioned there isn’t a provision for questioning nearly.
High AAP leaders – former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh – have been arrested by the ED in a cash laundering case regarding Delhi’s now-scrapped excise coverage.
Mr Kejriwal’s identify cropped up a number of occasions within the ED’s cost sheets. The company mentioned that the accused within the case had been in contact with the Chief Minister when the excise coverage was being drafted.
