Gahlot has been asked to appear for interrogation in the matter and have his statement recorded by the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).....
Digital desk: Kailash Gahlot, the minister of Delhi, was asked by the Enforcement Directorate on Saturday to appear in court on a money-laundering case related to the now-scrapped excise policy for the nation's capital. He showed up at the ED office on Saturday after receiving a summons from the federal organization.
In this case, the federal agency detained 49-year-old Kailash Gahlot, an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) member from Najafgarh who is the minister of law, home, and transportation in the Delhi government led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
According to sources cited by PTI, Gahlot has been asked to appear for interrogation in the matter and have his statement recorded by the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The complaint concerns suspected money laundering and corruption during the development and implementation of the excise policy for 2021–2022 by the Delhi government, which was subsequently abandoned. AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh are being held in judicial custody after being arrested by the ED earlier in the case.
On March 21, Arvind Kejriwal was arrested in a money laundering case that may have been related to excise policy. The detention of Delhi CM by the ED was extended by four days, or until April 1, by the Rouse Avenue court in Delhi. The AAP chief was to be placed under seven days of custody, according to the probing agency, but Special Judge Kaveri Baweja ordered that he appear in court on April 1 at 11 a.m.
Delhi minister Atishi claimed on Friday that when the ED's lawyer brought up the necessity to obtain the chief minister of Delhi's phone password during the remand hearing, the agency unintentionally disclosed why Arvind Kejriwal was detained.
She noted that the ED had previously claimed that they couldn't find Arvind Kejriwal's phone during the creation and execution of the liquor policy.
She stated that the BJP was requesting the password, not the ED. She further said that to obtain information regarding the AAP's Lok Sabha election plan, the investigating team required access to Kejriwal's phone.
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