Arvind Kejriwal : CBI to interrogate Kejriwal in liquor scam on April 16, AAP says conspiracy is being hatched to arrest him

Delhi's New Excise Policy (Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22) The CBI investigation in the scam case has now reached Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Now the CBI will also interrogate him. Aam Aadmi Party sources have revealed that the Chief Minister will be questioned in the alleged liquor scam. CM Kejriwal has been called by the CBI to the headquarters for questioning on 16 April.

In the case, Aam Aadmi Party's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh tweeted that there would be an end to atrocities. Along with this, he told that he held a press conference at 6 pm (April 14) in the matter of summons to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by the CBI.

Conspiracy being hatched to arrest Kejriwal- Sanjay Singh

Aam Aadmi Party leader and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh said that his party is not going to be cowed down by the notice given to the Chief Minister by the CBI, neither the party nor Kejriwal is going to be cowed down. Sanjay Singh said that on the notice of CBI, the Chief Minister will go to appear on April 16.

He said that this notice has come to Kejriwal because of what Kejriwal had put forth in the Delhi Assembly about the Prime Minister and his friend regarding money. A conspiracy is being hatched to arrest Kejriwal.

Sisodia has already been arrested

Manish Sisodia, former Deputy Chief Minister of the Delhi government, was arrested by the CBI on February 26 after an eight-hour-long interrogation in a corruption case related to the excise policy. After this, on March 9, after questioning in Tihar Jail, the ED arrested him in the money laundering case in the Excise Policy case. He is in judicial custody in the CBI case. Apart from this, ED is also in judicial custody in the money laundering case.

In October 2022, the ED raided about three dozen locations in Delhi and Punjab after arresting Sameer Mahendru, managing director of Jor Bagh-based liquor distributor Indospirit Group in Delhi, in the case and later arresting him. The CBI also filed its first chargesheet in the case earlier this week.

This is the matter of liquor policy

The CBI and ED have alleged that irregularities were committed while revising the excise policy and undue favors were given to the licensees. In this the license fee was waived or reduced. It is also alleged that the Excise Department had decided against the prescribed rules to return the earnest money deposit of about Rs 30 crore to a successful tenderer. The policy caused a loss of Rs 144.36 crore to the exchequer. The FIR was registered by the CBI on the recommendation of the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi.

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