Delhi lieutenant governor (LG) VK Saxena has reportedly granted permission to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to prosecute Aam Aadmi Get together chief and former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal within the excise coverage case.
The ED had sought permission for sanction of prosecution towards Arvind Kejriwal within the case on December 5.
The Aam Aadmi Get together, nonetheless, claimed that there was no such sanction and challenged the ED to point out a duplicate of the sanction.
Former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia alleged that the transfer was to distract consideration from Union dwelling minister Amit Shah’s assertion on BR Ambedkar in Parliament.
“If LG Vinai Saxena has accepted prosecution towards Arvind Kejriwal, then why isn’t the ED exhibiting a duplicate of that approval? It’s clear that this information is fake and deceptive,” Sisodia wrote in a post on X in Hindi.
“Cease this rhetoric to distract from the problem of disrespect in the direction of Baba Saheb and present the place the ED has been granted approval to prosecute!” he added.
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva stated his occasion welcomes the transfer to analyze Arvind Kejriwal.
“Arvind Kejriwal is the principle accused in liquor rip-off, he’s out on bail. We now have been saying that Arvind Kejriwal took a fee in liquor rip-off, because the investigation would progress, he could be trapped, he has spoiled Delhi, and looted crores of rupees, we welcome the investigation,” he informed PTI.
Excise coverage case
The AAP Supremo was arrested by the ED on March 21 and by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on June 26, after a sequence of dramatic developments in court docket.
On July 12, the Supreme Court docket had granted interim bail to Kejriwal within the ED case, acknowledging that he has spent over 90 days in incarceration and within the CBI case on September 12, reiterating bail is the rule, and jail an exception.
The case towards the previous CM had stemmed from allegations of irregularities in Delhi’s now-scrapped excise coverage of 2021-22, which the CBI started probing following a advice by Delhi’s lieutenant governor (LG) in July 2022.
