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CM Arvind Kejriwal appeared in Rouse Avenue Court on Thursday in the Delhi liquor policy scam case. Today his remand had ended. After hearing both the sides, the court approved Kejriwal’s five-day ED remand. ED had demanded remand of seven days. During the hearing, Kejriwal presented his views in the court and raised questions on the action of ED. Arvind Kejriwal himself also presented his arguments in the court. He also raised the issue of funding of BJP through electoral bonds by the company of accused Sharat Reddy in the case.
In fact, according to the electoral bond information recently made public by the Election Commission on the orders of the Supreme Court, Aurobindo Pharma, the company of Sharat Chand Reddy, accused in the Delhi Liquor Policy case, has donated Rs 52 crore to the BJP. Reddy was arrested in November 2022 in the liquor policy case. After this he became a government witness last year. Kejriwal has also highlighted this matter in the court.
Kejriwal asked questions in the court that on what basis have I been arrested? What is the basis for my arrest? Is the statement of one person enough to arrest the Chief Minister? Kejriwal said that I am ready to cooperate in the investigation, but not as per ED. Kejriwal’s lawyer said that the accused has the right to remain silent. If he does not want to answer any question then he can remain silent.
Know what arguments Kejriwal gave in the court-
Kejriwal said that we want to thank the ED officers who are cooperating. This matter has been going on for two and a half years. Kejriwal said that he wants to say something. On this the court allowed him to speak. After this Kejriwal said that I would like to tell you why my name came. I was neither arrested nor prosecuted in any court. 31000 pages have been filed. he adds-
1. My name appeared at four places. The allegation is that C Arvind (former secretary of Sisodia) gave documents to Sisodia at my house. Hundreds of people come to my house. You can arrest me on this charge. The court said that it should be given in writing.
2. The second case is of Srinivasan, who came to my house to talk about land for opening a trust. We said, you give the proposal and we will give it to LG, then ED raided Srinivasan’s house and when the son was arrested, the matter ended. When Srinivas changes his statement, he gets bail. ED’s aim is to implicate us. In the 25,000 pages filed by ED, statements have been made against Kejriwal, which is not a favorable statement.
3. Raghav Manguta has seven statements, in 6 of them my name is not there, in the seventh when he gives a statement against me, he gets bail. Where is the liquor scam money? An allegation of Rs 100 crore is being made. There is an order by Justice Sanjeev Khanna, in which it is said that this is suspicious. There is no mention of bribery against me in 8 out of 9 statements of Sharath Reddy. But as soon as he speaks against me in the 9th statement, he gets bail.
4. ED’s investigation has two objectives. Creating atmosphere and collecting money by threatening ED. Sharat Reddy donated Rs 55 crore from electoral bonds. The aim of ED is to destroy and crush AAP party. Sharat Reddy was granted bail after donating Rs 55 crore. After being arrested, Sharat Reddy had donated Rs 55 crore to BJP. We have a copy of the bond.
6. The purpose of the investigation is to extort money and crush AAP.
7. Kejriwal said that the copy of the bond should be given to the court.
8. As long as ED wants to keep me in its custody, I am ready for investigation.
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