Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh claimed that the motive behind the arrest in a money laundering case related to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s stock policy was to destroy AAP.
Sanjay Singh said:
“Whether it is the ED court or the Supreme Court, everyone agrees that Arvind Kejriwal is innocent. The arrests are happening because PM Modi wants to end the political career of AAP and Arvind Kejriwal. This is a dictatorship. Opposition parties are liquidated with the help of investigative agencies.”
He further mentioned that the Supreme Court has raised questions about the actions and arrests of ED officials.
He added, “The ED court granted bail and Arvind Kejriwal was acquitted because there is a provision in the PMLA that the judge must believe that the person is innocent while granting bail. Ignoring this law, the ED approached the Supreme Court. The court without a copy of the order the First for the first time in the history of the Indian judiciary, the Supreme Court announced that the reasons for the arrest would be heard in a larger court in the meantime the Supreme Court gave a temporary bail to Delhi Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a failed political case Kejriwal is still in jail because he was arrested by the CBI in the same case.
AAP leaders claimed that the interim bail order showed that the agencies and the government had made a false claim about the alleged excise duty scam.
The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in an excise policy case registered by the Executive Director (ED). He questioned whether the central office has a uniform policy on when a person should be arrested. under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta, referring to official data available on the ED’s website about its cases, said, “The data raises several questions, including whether the ED has formulated a policy on when they should arrest violators under the PML Act.”
Kejriwal was arrested by the ED on March 21 in connection with a money laundering probe into alleged irregularities in the now-canceled Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22.
