On Sunday, the Enforcement Directorate issued the ninth summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal concerning the excise policy investigation asking him to appear before it on Thursday.
Kejriwal has skipped eight summonses issued by the agency. This comes after a Delhi court granted bail to Kejriwal in two complaints filed by the Enforcement Directorate against him for skipping summons consecutively in a money laundering case.
The anti-corruption agency filed two complaints before the magisterial court, seeking Kejriwal’s prosecution for skipping summonses issued to him in the case.
The complaint is related to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor not honouring summonses no. 4 to 8 sent by the federal probe agency under Section 50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), according to the media reports.
However, two senior AAP leaders, Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh are already under judicial custody in the case. Sisodia, who was the then Delhi Deputy Chief Minister, was arrested by the CBI on February 26 following several rounds of questioning and on October 5, the ED arrested Singh, who is a Rajya Sabha member.
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