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New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday issued its fourth notice summoning Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for questioning in the alleged Delhi excise policy case. The central probe agency has once again called on CM Kejriwal to appear before it on January 18, ANI reported, citing sources.
Notably, the central agency issued the third summon to CM Kejriwal on December 22 last year, asking him to appear before the agency on January 3. The agency wants to question him regarding the alleged Delhi liquor scam case.
Before that, the Delhi CM was summoned by the ED on December 18, asking him to appear before the central agency for questioning on December 21. He was first called by the ED to appear on November 2, but he did not appear, alleging that the notice was “vague, motivated and unsustainable in law.”
After skipping the third summons, CM Kejriwal, in his reply to the Enforcement Directorate, expressed his readiness to cooperate with the ongoing probe on the excise policy but declined to appear on the summoned date, terming it “illegal.”
He questioned the agency for not acknowledging and responding to his replies when the summons was sent to him. He also raised certain queries on the nature of the investigation.
“As a premier investigating agency the non-disclosure and non-response approach adopted by you cannot sustain the test of law, equity or justice. Your obstinacy is tantamount to assuming the role of judge, jury and executioner at the same time which is not acceptable in our country governed by the rule of law,” CM Kejriwal wrote in his reply to the ED.
Notably, he was also summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in April last year, in connection with the case. However, CBI has not named him as an accused in its first information report (FIR) filed on August 17, last year.
In February last year, CBI arrested Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia for alleged irregularities in the framing and implementation of the now-scrapped new excise policy.
The liquor policy was withdrawn following the allegations of foul play by the Opposition.
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