The Enforcement Directorate has called Delhi minister and AAP leader Kailash Gahlot for questioning in relation to a money-laundering investigation related to the spirits policy case following the arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal a few days ago. This is the first time he has been called upon.
According to PTI, Kailash Gahlot has been invited to appear before the agency today.
49-year-old The AAP MLA for Najafgarh in Delhi is Kailash Gehlot. He is the Delhi government’s minister of law, home, and transportation.
According to PTI-affiliated sources, the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) summoned Kailash Gahlot to the case to answer questions and record his statement.
In this case, three prominent AAP figures, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh, and Arvind Kejriwal, are incarcerated on comparable allegations.
Saurabh Bharadwaj, Atishi, and Kailash Gahlot are the only well-known AAP figures not imprisoned.
Shortly after the Delhi High Court declined to shield Kejriwal from arrest due to the excise policy, the ED detained him on March 21.
After he disregarded nine summonses from the Enforcement Directorate, he was taken into custody.
For moral reasons, the Bharatiya Janata Party has been pressing for Kejriwal’s removal from his position as chief minister of Delhi.
What Arvind Kejriwal stated on Thursday in court
At present, Arvind Kejriwal is in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate.
He said earlier this week in a Delhi court that the AAP was constructing a “smokescreen” to hide its corruption from the public.
“4 witnesses named me in an excise policy case, are 4 statements enough to arrest a sitting CM,” he told the jury. He asserted that those who changed their minds and became approvers in the case were being pressured to do so. The money that the AAP allegedly accepted “doesn’t exist,” according to Arvind Kejriwal.