The Enforcement Directorate has sent its fifth summon to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in connection to Delhi liquor scam case. Kejriwal, also the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor, has skipped ED summons four times.
ED has asked Kejriwal to join investigation on February 2 in its ongoing probe in Delhi Excise policy case.
The last time ED summoned Arvind Kejriwal to appear in connection with the Delhi excise policy or the alleged liquor scam case was on January 18. Delhi CM Kejriwal skipped the summon and left for Goa.
Arvind Kejriwal has skipped his summons so far, alleging that the intention of the probe agency is to arrest him on instructions of the BJP-led central government.
The ED summon pertains to the excise policy-linked money laundering case, for which his party colleagues Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain have been jailed. Satyendar Jain is currently out on bail.
Allegations are that Delhi government's excise policy for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor traders allowed cartelisation and favoured certain dealers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a charge repeatedly refuted by AAP. The policy was subsequently scrapped and the Delhi lieutenant governor recommended a CBI probe, following which the ED registered a case under the PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act).
Kejriwal has been summoned previously on January 18, January 3 this year and December 21, November 2 last year.
