The Enforcement Directorate (ED) notified the Supreme Court today of a noteworthy development: they had discovered chats between Arvind Kejriwal and Hawala operators.
“The hawala operator has now been taken into custody. “Recoveries have now been made from the hawala operators, even though Kejriwal destroyed many phones,” Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said, addressing a bench made up of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta.
This information was revealed when Justice Khanna asked the ED to submit all of the documents they had used to support their decision in the Manish Sisodia case.
“We have discovered private conversations between Arvind Kejriwal and the hawala operator,” SG Raju, the Additional Solicitor, told the bench.
“This is unfair,” Senior Advocate AM Singhvi said in response to the ED’s presentation. At 4:30 PM, this information is being made public; this is evidence suppression.
According to the ED, after the Goa polls, Kejriwal asked for ₹100 crores, which was then paid for through hawala transactions.
On May 10, the Supreme Court of India granted Arvind Kejriwal temporary bail, allowing him to run for the Aam Aadmi Party in the general elections of 2024.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) told the court yesterday that Kejriwal made remarks in public that they called a “slap on the system” following his release on interim bail.
The division bench was informed during Kejriwal’s appeal hearing against the ED arrest that the court had given him instructions not to mention his involvement in the case. “They say I have to go back to jail in 20 days,” he is saying. I won’t have to go to jail if you vote for the broom.
Justice Sanjiv Khanna clarified in response, saying, “That is his presumption. He’ll have to give up. We have a very clear order. We’ve established a deadline for his surrender. Nobody is receiving an exception from us. We have ordered what we believe to be correct. Let’s focus on the legal matters.
“He will not interact with any witnesses or have access to any official files related to the case,” according to the interim order.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and Additional Solicitor General SV Raju, who represented the ED in court, vigorously opposed the granting of temporary relief to the Delhi CM.
Additionally, the ED submitted an affidavit claiming that Kejriwal should not be given special treatment when other politicians are currently detained under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
Tushar Mehta, the solicitor general, was adamantly against the temporary bail, claiming that it gave the appearance that Kejriwal’s campaign would be severely disrupted if he were prevented from running.
