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Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday reserved its order in chief minister Arvind Kejriwal\u2019s plea seeking bail in the money laundering case being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate or ED in connection with the alleged irregularities into the now-scrapped excise policy.<\/p>\n
The court also reserved its order in Arvind Kejriwal\u2019s application for permitting his wife, Sunita Kejriwal, to participate via video conference in his examination by the medical board.<\/p>\n
Rouse Avenue Court judge Niyay Bindu heard the matter for two days before reserving orders on the matter on Thursday. The judge had earlier indicated that she did not wish to keep the matter pending indefinitely while asking all counsel to be concise in their arguments.<\/p>\n
Opposing the Delhi chief minister\u2019s bail application, additional solicitor General (ASG) SV Raju argued that ED has documentary evidence to substantiate that part of the proceeds of crime was used for the hotel stay of the Aam Aadmi Party convenor in Goa during the Goa assembly elections.<\/p>\n
He added that the federal agency also has documentary evidence in the form of telephone calls and call data records (CDR) to prove that co-accused Chanpreet Singh, who allegedly managed the funds for the Aam Aadmi Party\u2019s campaign during the Goa assembly polls, received \u20b945 crore from different Angadiya\u2019s in cash and also made the payment for Arvind Kejriwal\u2019s hotel stay in Goa from his account.<\/p>\n
The law officer added that the token numbers recovered from these angadiyas have direct contact with Arvind Kejriwal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not that the ED is doing an investigation in the air. There is concrete evidence,\u201d Raju said.<\/p>\n
The law officer further submitted that the CM had \u201cgood relations\u201d with co-accused Vinod Chauhan, who allegedly transferred the cash bribe from the \u201cSouth Group\u201d to the AAP during the campaign of the Goa polls. \u201cWhat has the CM to do with an angadiya owner who transfers cash? Arvind Kejriwal is chatting with Vinod Chauhan,\u201d Raju said.<\/p>\n
He added that that the CM is \u201cdirectly responsible\u201d for the affairs of AAP and thus vicariously responsible for the money laundering offence committed through the party<\/p>\n
Regarding the timing of the arrest, Raju said that the ED did not act in a\u201chot haste\u201d and arrested the CM only after the Delhi high court denied him relief of no coercive action pursuant to considering \u201cdetailed records.\u201d \u201cThe division bench found material to be adequate,\u201d Raju adds, pointing out that the federal agency did not arrest the CM despite him not complying with nine summons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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