Delhi excise policy case: Flagging 'destroyed SIMs', BJP calls discharge 'technical'

New Delhi: The BJP said on Friday that the discharge of AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal and others in the Delhi excise policy is a technical matter, and the party will come up with a structural response after studying the court's judgment.

"Though a court has discharged Arvind Kejriwal for lack of evidence in a case involving the Delhi excise policy, the people of the national capital have already given him a political response on political grounds. The probe agency will now decide its next course of action based on technical grounds," BJP national spokesperson Sudhansu Trivedi said during a press briefing.

"This is also true that hundreds of mobile phones and SIM cards, evidence in the case, were destroyed. Now, why were those destroyed and how that led to the lack of evidence in the case, the CBI will look into such technical issues and decide its next course of action," Trivedi said. "It is also worth considering that if there was no evidence at all, how did the court allow the charges to be framed?" All the charges were baseless, yet those were framed. So, there are certain technical issues and after studying the judgment in depth, the party will give a structured response."


With AAP alleging it as a conspiracy by the top leaders of the BJP, Trivedi termed it a political accusation by the AAP leaders.