The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday said its national convenor and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal will not appear before the Enforcement Department, claiming that its summons is illegal. The AAP said the ED should wait for the court’s decision instead of repeatedly sending summonses to Arvind Kejriwal. This will be the sixth ED summons in connection with the money laundering probe related to irregularities in the Delhi excise policy 2021-22 case that Arvind Kejriwal will skip.
On February 2, Kejriwal skipped the ED’s summons for the fifth time. The summons to the Delhi chief minister followed the fourth summons, which he had skipped on January 18.
While skipping the fifth summons, the party called it “unlawful.”
According to the ED, the agency wanted to record Kejriwal’s statement in the case on issues like the formulation of policy, meetings held before it was finalised, and allegations of bribery.
In its sixth charge sheet filed in the case on December 2, 2023, naming AAP leader Sanjay Singh and his aide Sarvesh Mishra, the ED has claimed that the AAP used kickbacks worth ₹45 crore generated via the policy as part of its assembly elections campaign in Goa in 2022.
