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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal appeared before the Rouse Avenue Court the national capital in the Enforcement Directorate summons case. The Rouse Avenue Court later granted him bail in both the complaints of the Enforcement Directorate.Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Divya Malhotra granted bail to the Delhi CM.
The bail was granted on a bail bond of Rs 15,000 and a surety of Rs 1 lakh. Kejriwal appeared before the court following a summons issued to him by the court based on two ED complaints in connection with the Delhi Excise Policy case.
The court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Divya Malhotra also allowed Kejriwal to leave the courtroom. “Offence being bailable, accused Arvind Kejriwal is admitted to bail,” it said.
On CM Arvind Kejriwal granted bail in ED summons case, AAP leader Reena Gupta quoted by ANI said , “We have been saying from the start that this is a political vendetta & is a baseless case. No evidence has been found…”
The court further directed the ED to hand over documents related to the complaints to Kejriwal.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed two complaints before the magisterial court, seeking Kejriwal’s prosecution for skipping multiple summonses issued to him in the case.
The latest complaint pertains to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor not honouring summonses no. 4 to 8 sent by the federal probe agency under Section 50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The ED had earlier moved the magisterial court seeking Kejriwal’s prosecution for not attending the first three summonses issued to him in the money laundering case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy.
