On Friday, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) will file the first chargesheet against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tomorrow, as per the media reports. The agency calls Kejriwal the ‘kingpin’ of the Delhi liquor policy case.
However, on March 21 Kejriwal was arrested and is presently lodged in Tihar Jail under judicial custody. Earlier during a hearing seeking his custody,
The ED said Kejriwal was a key conspirator in the liquor scam case. The investigation agency said that the Delhi Chief Minister received many crores of rupees as kickbacks from the ‘South group’ for formulating and implementing the Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22.
He demanded Rs 100 crore from some accused from the South group for contesting elections, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) SV Raju had told the Rouse Avenue Court.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court will deliver its order on granting interim bail to Kejriwal in the money laundering investigation linked to the alleged excise policy scam on May 10.
Justice Sanjiv Khanna, who headed the bench which heard Kejriwal’s petition against his arrest in the case, said, ‘We will pronounce the interim order (on interim bail) on Friday. The main matter related to the challenge to arrest will also be taken on the same day’.
On May 7, the bench, also comprising Justice Dipankar Datta, had reserved its verdict on interim bail to Kejriwal. The two-judge bench had risen without pronouncing an order on granting Kejriwal interim bail to enable him to campaign in the Lok Sabha elections.
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