ED files fresh court complaint against Kejriwal

NEW DELHI, March 6: The Enforcement Directorate has filed a fresh complaint before a Delhi court seeking prosecution of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for skipping multiple summonses issued to him in a money laundering case, official sources said on Wednesday.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), they said.
The court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Divya Malhotra has listed the matter for hearing on Thursday.The ED had earlier moved a local 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.The court of ACMM Malhotra has listed this matter (regarding summonses no. 1 to 3) for hearing on March 16.Kejriwal, 55, had called all the ED summonses “illegal” and informed the agency last time that he could be questioned via a videoconferencing link after March 12.
“We have not done anything wrong nor are we trying to hide,” he had said at a press conference on March 4, the day he was asked to join the probe according to the ED’s eighth summons. (PTI)