Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been despatched to 6-day Enforcement Directorate custody by the Rouse Avenue Court docket in reference to the now-scrapped liquor policy-linked cash laundering case.
The Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) supremo will stay in probe company custody until March 28 (Thursday). He might be produced earlier than the court docket at 2 pm on March 28.
Kejriwal was produced within the trial court docket shortly after he withdrew from the Supreme Court docket his plea towards his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate within the excise coverage case on Thursday night.
In the course of the remand listening to, the federal probe company alleged that Kejriwal obtained a number of crores of rupees as kickbacks from the ‘South group’ for formulating and implementing the Delhi Excise Coverage 2021-22.
“He demanded Rs 100 crore from some accused from the ‘South group’ for contesting the Goa elections,” Further Solicitor Normal (ASG) SV Raju, who’s showing for the company, instructed the Rouse Avenue Court docket.
Raju additionally claimed that the cash path confirmed that Rs 45 crore ‘kickback’ used within the Goa elections got here from 4 hawala routes.
In the meantime, senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who appeared for Arvind Kejriwal, opposed the remand plea and contended that the probe company wants to indicate the need to arrest the Delhi Chief Minister. Singhvi additionally argued that the ability of arrest and necessity of arrest are two various things.
The senior lawyer additionally identified that within the historical past of 75 years of independence, that is the primary time a sitting Chief Minister is arrested, this primary time 4 leaders of his social gathering are arrested. “It’s like having the outcome earlier than the primary vote is forged,” he added.