New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal faces fresh summons from the Enforcement Directorate (ED), scheduled for December 21. The inquiry pertains to a money laundering case connected to the alleged excise policy scam.
Earlier, the Delhi Chief Minister was summoned by the federal agency to appear on November 2. However, he refused to attend, claiming that the notice lacked clarity, was biassed, and did not hold legal ground.
“The said summons is not clear as to the capacity in which I am being summoned i.e. as a witness or a suspect in the above-mentioned case. Please recall the said summons, which is to say the least is vague and motivated and I am advised, unsustainable in law,” Kejriwal stated in his letter to Jogendar, Assistant Director, ED.
He further alleged that the said summons appears to be politically motivated and issued for extraneous considerations.
Arvind Kejriwal was earlier summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in April this year, in connection with the case.
However, Kejriwal was not named as an accused in the first information report (FIR) filed by the CBI on August 17, last year.
In February 2023, Arvind Kejriwal’s Deputy Manish Sisodia was arrested by the CBI for alleged irregularities in the framing and implementation of the now-scrapped Delhi’s new excise policy. the policy was withdrawn amid allegations of foul play by the opposition.