During the questioning, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal told the Enforcement Directorate that he does not remember where he had kept his mobile phone, which he was allegedly using when the excise policy was being drafted.
On Thursday, the Aam Aadmi Party chief was arrested in the Delhi excise policy case by the central probe agency and is presently under their custody till March 28.
According to the media sources, it is believed that this cell phone, which may hold important information about the excise policy scheme, is the 171st of such missing gadgets.
‘170 mobile phones have previously been untraceable’, according to the central investigation agency.
The ED pieced together the case using the information collected after tracking down 17 phones. The agency named Manish Sisodia as an accused in the chargesheet, which also included the data obtained from the 17 mobile phones.
‘The phones could have been destroyed to erase evidence’, said the investigators. The agency’s chargesheet also said that the majority of the information and evidence were obtained from the accused’s laptops and mobile phones.
The ED believes that most of those charged changed their laptops and mobile phones between May and August 2022.
The ED chargesheet accused Vijay Nair, the media in-charge of Aam Aadmi Party, of working as a go-between for the ‘South Group,’ which paid the Kejriwal government Rs 100.
In its remand appeal to a Delhi court on Friday, the central investigative agency claimed that Kejriwal was the key conspirator and kingpin of the Delhi excise policy scam.
It went on to allege that he was personally involved in the policy’s creation, demanding payments, as well as the processing of criminal proceeds.
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