New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday issued the ninth summons to chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in the money laundering case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy, asking him to appear before it on Thursday, March 21. The ED’s ninth summons comes a day after Arvind Kejriwal was granted bail by the additional chief metropolitan magistrate of Rouse Avenue Court against arrest for skipping summons issued to him by the probe agency in the Delhi liquor policy money laundering case.
During the hearing, Arvind Kejriwal appeared physically before the court on Saturday. ACMM Divya Malhotra granted bail to the Aam Aadmi Party national convenor and noted that Section 174 of the Indian Penal Code is bailable and directed to furnish ₹15,000 thousand each in both complaint cases.
The court further directed the ED to hand over documents related to the complaints to Kejriwal.
On Thursday, it was submitted that Kejriwal gave a reply to each notice issued by the ED but despite coming to know the reasons for their non-appearance in person provided by him, the central probe agency continued issuing cyclostyle notices under Sections 50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
On Thursday, the Delhi CM had moved the sessions court challenging the summons issued to him by the additional chief metropolitan magistrate on ED complaints for not complying with the summons issued by the central probe agency.
On February 3, after Kejriwal had skipped its summons for the fifth time, the ED had filed a complaint in the court under Criminal Procedure Code sections 190 and 200 for not complying with the agency’s summons issued under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) Section 50 (power to issue summons) and not joining the investigation.
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