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Delhi Minister and AAP chief Atishi (R) reveals Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s (L) first course from ED custody on operating town authorities throughout a press convention (Picture: PTI)
Arrested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s assistant Bibhav Kumar was additionally questioned in the identical case on Monday
The Aam Aadmi Celebration on Monday alleged the BJP desires to cease it from campaigning within the Lok Sabha polls after the Enforcement Directorate questioned Delhi’s ruling celebration MLA Durgesh Pathak within the excise policy-linked cash laundering case.
Arrested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s assistant Bibhav Kumar was additionally questioned in the identical case on Monday. Each Kumar and Pathak have confronted grilling by the ED within the case earlier.
Reacting to the event, Delhi minister Atishi stated, “The BJP desires to cease the AAP from campaigning in Lok Sabha polls at any value. It is a political conspiracy by the BJP.”
AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sandeep Pathak alleged the BJP “has made an inventory of leaders they usually wish to put the complete celebration in jail in order that they’re in a solo in race”.
The ED on Monday recorded Bibhav Kumar and Durgesh Pathak’s statements below the provisions of the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA). Sources stated Kumar’s questioning was important in reference to the engagements of Kejriwal.
The company had alleged in its earlier cost sheets that at the very least 36 accused, together with former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, and Kumar, “destroyed, used or modified” 170 telephones to hide proof of “kickbacks” price 1000’s of crores of rupees within the alleged rip-off.
Pathak, the 35-year-old AAP MLA from Rajinder Nagar constituency, is known to have been known as by the company for questioning in reference to the celebration’s 2021-22 ballot marketing campaign for the Goa meeting polls.
The ED has alleged that Rs 45 crore in kickbacks out of the Rs 100 crore bribe allegedly supplied by the ‘South Group’, had been utilized by the AAP for this marketing campaign.
The company has claimed that money funds had been made to people concerned in marketing campaign actions, managed by AAP members like Vijay Nair and Pathak.
