ED summons Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal for 5th time in excise policy case

Enforcement Directorate has issued fresh summons to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, asking him to appear before the agency on Friday.

This is the fifth time Kejriwal has been summoned by the federal agency in connection with its ongoing money laundering probe into the Delhi liquor policy case.

Earlier, Kejriwal was summoned on January 18 but he refused to appear, citing prior engagements linked to the now-concluded assembly elections.


Before that he was asked to appear on January 3, December 21 and November 2. He had skipped all these summons, calling them "politically motivated and illegal".

In February last year, a local court had taken cognisance of the supplementary charge sheet filed by ED in connection with its money laundering probe into the Delhi government's now-scrapped liquor policy.

The agency has alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) used the money raised from the Delhi liquor scam to fund its election campaign in Goa.

"Investigation of the trail of this kickback so far has revealed that a part of these funds was used in the election campaign of AAP," ED had alleged in its supplementary charge sheet.

The charge sheet had mentioned an alleged call between Kejriwal and liquor distributor Indospirits' owner Sameer Mahendru, an accused in the case, wherein Kejriwal allegedly asked him to carry on working with AAP's communication in-charge Vijay Nair.