Delhi Excise Policy Case: ED Summons Arvind Kejriwal For Third Time

The central probe agency, Enforcement Directorate (ED) sent a third summons to Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Friday. ED asked Delhi Chief Minister to appear before the federal agency on January 3 for questioning in Delhi excise policy case.

The investigation agency has sent the first summons to Delhi Chief Minister on November 2. He called the summons as “vague, motivated and unsustainable in law”. While skipping the first summons, AAP supremo stated his busy schedule due to the upcoming election in Madhya Pradesh as the reason.

The federal agency sent the second summons on December 21.  Arvind Kejriwal called it as “illegal and politically motivated,” and asked the agency to withdraw the summons. “I am ready to accept every legal summon. However, this ED summon is also illegal and politically motivated, like the previous summons. Summon should be withdrawn. I have spent my life with honesty and transparency. I have nothing to hide,” India Today quotes as Arvind Kejriwal is saying.

While refusing to appear before the agency on the second summons, Delhi Chief Minister wrote a detailed letter to the assistant director of the investigating agency stating that personal appearance was “not in consonance with the law” and it should be withdrawn.  At present, Arvind Kejriwal is undertaking a 10-day Vipassana meditation course.

Earlier in relation to now-scrapped Delhi Excise policy case, Senior AAP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and another AAP leader, Sanjay Singh, have been arrested. The agency alleges that Rs 1,000 crore of proceeds of crime were generated in the liquor scam of which it had established a money trail of over Rs 500 crore.