Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal apprehended by ED in cash laundering case

Home News Elections 2024 Updated – March 21, 2024 at 10:33 PM.|NEW DELHI The arrest followed Kejriwal’s not successful legal fights looking for defense from the ED’s coercive action A file image of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal|Image Credit: PTI Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was on Thursday detained from his home by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) after the Supreme Court declined to approve him relief versus the company’s coercive action versus him in the Delhi import tax cash laundering case. A group of ED landed at the CM’s house at night when Kejriwal lost the very first legal fight of looking for defense from the Delhi High Court versus the ED’s relocation, which had actually released 9 summons to him seeking his existence in the Delhi import tax case. Kejriwal avoided each summons due to the fact that they were prohibited and implied to apprehend him for stopping the AAP leader from electioneering in the Lok Sabha surveys. Tight security at Arvind Kejriwal’s home after ED group’s arrival Video Credit: ANI Against that, the AAP leader moved the Supreme Court late at night looking for an immediate hearing versus the Delhi High Court’s double bench declining to provide him relief in liquorgate. “We have actually heard both sides, and we are not inclined at this phase (to give defense). The participant is at liberty to submit reply,” a High Court bench of Justices Suresh Kumar Kait and Manoj Jain stated while publishing Kejriwal’s application tough summons released by the ED for hearing on Friday. Extra Solicitor General S V Raju, standing for the ED, stated, “It is currently over. Time is over. He is not participating in.” Kejriwal had actually moved the petition, specifying that he wanted to sign up with the probe, however the court must direct the ED not to detain him considering that the summons were unlawful. The Apex Court, too, did not step in versus the Delhi Hello
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