NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Social gathering convenor Arvind Kejriwal is not going to seem earlier than the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Monday in reference to the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) cash laundering probe.
The ED has issued one other summons to Arvind Kejriwal for at present in reference to the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) cash laundering probe.
He was issued a summons by the ED beneath Part 50 of the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act within the Delhi Jal Board case.
Earlier, Aam Aadmi Social gathering chief and Delhi Minister Atishi claimed that the case is ‘pretend’, including that the occasion just isn’t conscious of the case registered by the ED on this matter.
“Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal acquired one other summons yesterday night by the ED…They’ve requested him to hitch some investigations associated to the Delhi Jal Board. We’re unaware of the case registered by the ED on this matter,” she stated.
In February this yr, ED arrested a retired chief engineer, Jagdish Kumar Arora, and a contractor, Anil Kumar Aggarwal, in reference to its cash laundering probe into alleged irregularities within the tendering means of the DJB.
ED is investigating two separate issues of irregularities within the tendering means of the DJB, and its felony case stems from an FIR of the CBI and from the Anti-Corruption Department (ACB) of the Delhi authorities.
The CBI FIR alleged that officers of the DJB gave “undue benefit” to NKG Infrastructure Restricted whereas awarding the tender to the corporate for provide, set up, testing, and commissioning of electro-magnetic movement metres in connivance with officers of NBCC (lndia) Restricted.
The second allegation pertains to the ACB criticism of November 2022, the place it was said that DJB awarded a young for organising automotive invoice cost assortment machines (kiosks) in its completely different workplaces to facilitate customers in invoice cost.
Moreover this summons, ED has additionally issued a ninth summons to Kejriwal in a cash laundering probe associated to irregularities within the Delhi Excise Coverage 2021-22 case asking him to hitch the investigation on March 21.
ED’s two recent strikes have been taken after Kejriwal for the primary time appeared earlier than the town’s Rouse Avenue Courtroom bodily in reference to the Delhi Excise Coverage case because the company earlier filed two complaints in opposition to him within the courtroom complaining for disobeying their summonses to hitch the probe within the Delhi excise coverage case. The courtroom later granted him bail within the case filed by the company for skipping its summonses.
Kejriwal obtained bail on a bail bond of Rs 15,000 within the case of complaints filed by ED. He’s on bail and has been requested by the courtroom to reply to the ED summons and obey the legislation. The courtroom directed the Dehi Chief Minister that following the legislation is acceptable for an individual who has taken the oath of the Structure.
Kejriwal has up to now skipped eight earlier summons issued by the ED within the Delhi Excise Coverage case on March 4, February 26, February 19, February 2, January 18, January 3, November 2 and December 22, calling them “unlawful and politically motivated”. The ED desires to file Kejriwal’s assertion within the case on points just like the formulation of coverage, conferences held earlier than it was finalised, and allegations of bribery.
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