Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party National Coordinator Arvind Kejriwal has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) team after two hours of questioning and searches at his official residence in an alleged liquor policy scam case. During this, ED Joint Director Kapil Raj was present at Kejriwal’s residence.
The ED team arrested Chief Minister Kejriwal and brought him to his office at Abdul Kalam Road on APJ. The ED arrested Kejriwal under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) in a money laundering case.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was brought to the Financial Investigation Agency office at 11 pm on Thursday by the ED team from his residence. A large number of policemen have been deployed around the agency’s office and barricades have been erected around it. Prohibitory orders have also been imposed in the entire area.
According to the information received from sources, Kejriwal will stay in ED lockup tonight. Investigators can question Kejriwal further. He will be produced in court after medical examination.
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According to sources, the legal team of ED is also preparing a remand petition to be presented in the court to get Kejriwal’s custody.
Earlier, the Delhi High Court rejected Kejriwal’s plea seeking protection from ‘coercive action’, hours after which Kejriwal was arrested.
He was repeatedly summoned by the probe agency, but he was not appearing. So far they have not got any relief even from the Supreme Court.
Three ministers of Aam Aadmi Party government, Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain, Sanjay Singh are already in jail under this law.
