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Arvind Kejriwal News: He has refused to appear before the Enforcement Directorate.
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Arvind Kejriwal LIVE Updates: A 12-member team of the Enforcement Directorate reached Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s official residence with a search warrant in the excise policy case. The Delhi Chief Minister has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate. Mr Kejriwal has become the first sitting chief minister to be arrested in the history of Independent India and his party has said he will continue to hold the post.
The Enforcement Directorate’s action comes hours after the Delhi High Court refused to grant protection from arrest to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the liquor policy case. The Delhi Chief Minister had challenged the ED summons to him for questioning over alleged money.
He repeatedly refused to appear before the ED, calling the summons by the central agency illegal.
Here are the LIVE updates on Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest:
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डरा हुआ तानाशाह, एक मरा हुआ लोकतंत्र बनाना चाहता है।
मीडिया समेत सभी संस्थाओं पर कब्ज़ा, पार्टियों को तोड़ना, कंपनियों से हफ्ता वसूली, मुख्य विपक्षी दल का अकाउंट फ्रीज़ करना भी ‘असुरी शक्ति’ के लिए कम था, तो अब चुने हुए मुख्यमंत्रियों की गिरफ्तारी भी आम बात हो गई है।
INDIA इसका…
– Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) March 21, 2024
“Strongly condemn the vindictive misuse of central agencies to target the opposition, especially as general elections loom. This arrest showcases the depth to which the BJP will stoop for power. ‘INDIA’ stands united against this unconstitutional action against,” Sharad Pawar said.
Strongly condemn the vindictive misuse of central agencies to target the opposition, especially as general elections loom. This arrest showcases the depth to which BJP will stoop for power. ‘INDIA’ stands united against this unconstitutional action against #ArvindKejriwal
– Sharad Pawar (@PawarSpeaks) March 21, 2024
Just got a call from Lovely ji, Congress delegation including leaders from Delhi and AICC is reaching CM’s residence shortly
– Saurabh Bharadwaj (@Saurabh_MLAgk) March 21, 2024
Our legal team is heading to the residence of the Registar of the Supreme Court, to ask for an urgent hearing. https://t.co/jpHRnzaIn4
– Atishi (@AtishiAAP) March 21, 2024
The election process has begun. And now this!
Chiefs of political parties, CMs, political leaders, election agents, workers, every opponent- being harassed & arrested like this
What will be the fate of our precious democracy
LET US ALL SAVE DEMOCRACY FROM IMPENDING DISASTER
– Derek O’Brien | ডেরেক ও’ব্রায়েন (@derekobrienmp) March 21, 2024
#WATCH | Delhi CM and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Excise policy case
Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva says, “Arvind Kejriwal was continuously making excuses in the liquor policy scam since 2020-21 and the kind of… pic.twitter.com/Jt3AQyyJzX
– ANI (@ANI) March 21, 2024
#WATCH | AAP MLA Rakhi Birla detained by Delhi Police while protesting outside the residence of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.
Delhi CM and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the Excise policy case. pic.twitter.com/j8NEawWk8v
– ANI (@ANI) March 21, 2024
Arrested Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal will be produced before the special PMLA court on Friday and the Enforcement Directorate will seek his custody for interrogation Press Trust of India reported quoting officials.
“Arvind Kejriwal ruined the children of lakhs of mothers in Delhi by making them addicted to alcohol, the effect of the curse of all those mothers is visible, today another corrupt person came to an end,” BJP MP Parvesh Verma said on Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest.
#WATCH | Delhi Police uses drone for surveillance.
Delhi CM and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Excise policy case: Sources pic.twitter.com/Hy0TnVWCBf
– ANI (@ANI) March 21, 2024
“We have moved the Supreme Court for the quashing the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, by ED. We have asked for an urgent hearing by the Supreme Court tonight itself,” Delhi Minister Atishi said.
We have moved the Supreme Court for quashing the arrest of Delhi CM @ArvindKejriwal, by ED. We have asked for an urgent hearing by the Supreme Court tonight itself.
– Atishi (@AtishiAAP) March 21, 2024
Arvind Kejriwal Arrest Live Updates: Four companies of paramilitary forces and more than 100 Delhi Police personnel have been deployed in and around the Enforcement Directorate headquarters.
Congress leader reacted to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest and said, “Targeting Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in this manner due to elections is completely wrong and unconstitutional. Lowering the level of politics in this manner suits neither the Prime Minister nor his government.”
चुनाव के चलते दिल्ली के मुख्यमंत्री श्री अरविंद केजरीवाल को इस तरह टार्गेट करना एकदम गलत और असंवैधानिक है। राजनीति का स्तर इस तरह से गिराना न प्रधानमंत्री जी को शोभा देता है, न उनकी सरकार को।
अपने आलोचकों से चुनावी रणभूमि में उतरकर लड़िये, उनका डटकर मुक़ाबला करिए, उनकी नीतियों…
– Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) March 21, 2024
“Fight your critics in the electoral battle, confront them boldly, and of course attack their policies and working style – this is democracy. But in this way, using the power of all the institutions of the country to fulfill one’s political objective and weakening them by exerting pressure is against every principle of democracy,” she added.
“The bank accounts of the country’s largest opposition party Congress have been frozen, all the political parties and their leaders are under pressure day and night from ED, CBI, and IT, one Chief Minister has been put in jail, and now the other Chief Minister is also in jail. Preparations are being made to take it. Such a shameful scene is being seen for the first time in the independent history of India,” she said.
#WATCH | Police detains AAP workers protesting outside the residence of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.
Enforcement Directorate team is present at Arvind Kejriwal’s residence for questioning. pic.twitter.com/t2LbWGNAcX
– ANI (@ANI) March 21, 2024
Arvind Kejriwal Arrest Live Updates: Delhi Minister Atishi said Arvind Kejriwal will remain as Chief Minister of Delhi and he will not resign from the post.
Live Updates: Delhi Chief Minister has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in the liquor policy case. He’s the first sitting Chief Minister to be arrested. The Chief Minister has been arrested in the alleged liquor scam. Arvind Kejriwal is the fourth Aam Aadmi Party leader to be arrested in the case. Former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, AAP MP Sanjay Singh and AAP leader Vijay Nair were arrested earlier.
Timeline of summons Issued to Arvind Kejriwal
First – 2 November 2023
Second – 21 December 2023
Third – 03 January 2024
Fourth – 18 January 2024
Fifth – 02 February 2024
Sixth – 19 February 2024
Seventh – 26 February 2024
Eighth – 4 March 2024
Ninth – 21 March 2024
Delhi Liquor Policy Case: A Timeline
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the liquor policy case. The agency turned up at the doorstep of Mr Kejriwal hours after the Delhi High Court refused to grant him any protection from arrest. AAP suspects the agency is going to arrest the Chief Minister, who is in the process of appealing to the Supreme Court for an urgent hearing.
Delhi Minister Imran Hussain says, “It’s very unfortunate. It’s a conspiracy to stop the AAP and Arvind Kejriwal. People of Delhi love Arvind Kejriwal and they’ll respond to the BJP.”
#WATCH | Enforcement Directorate team present at Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s residence for questioning.
Delhi Minister Imran Hussain says, “It’s very unfortunate. It’s a conspiracy to stop the AAP and Arvind Kejriwal. People of Delhi love Arvind Kejriwal and they’ll respond to… pic.twitter.com/bUT6nGOB4W
– ANI (@ANI) March 21, 2024
#WATCH | AAP workers stage protest outside the residence of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.
Enforcement Directorate team is present at Arvind Kejriwal’s residence for questioning. pic.twitter.com/CmvqWuYUmY
– ANI (@ANI) March 21, 2024
Explained: Why Enforcement Directorate Wants To Arrest Arvind Kejriwal
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is questioning Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal in the liquor policy case. AAP leaders Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj have said they suspect the ED will today arrest Mr Kejriwal, who had skipped the central probe agency’s summons for a ninth time.
Sources said the probe agency is dumping data from electronic gadgets seized from Arvind Kejriwal.
Live Updates: Sources said the security has been increased outside the Enforcement Directorate’s office. Sources said the ED is planning to take Arvind Kejriwal to the agency’s headquarters.
The Delhi Police have imposed Section 144 outside the Chief Minister’s residence.
The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) said the Enforcement Directorate reaching Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence on Thursday is a “systematic and planned move” by the BJP, which targets its opponents using central agencies.
“The raid on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is a systematic and planned move by the BJP. It is evident and known that all those in the opposition and the INDIA bloc who speak against the BJP are targeted by using central agencies,” NCP (SP) spokesperson Clyde Crasto said.
Live Updates: No midnight hearing in the Supreme Court on Arvind Kejriwal’s urgent plea, the matter will be listed for tomorrow, sources said.
#WATCH | Enforcement Directorate team reached Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s residence for questioning.
Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi says, “The matter is going on in the court, 22 April has been decided as the next date. What was the hurry to raid, to arrest, to search?… The way… pic.twitter.com/ghnvp7IWSn
– ANI (@ANI) March 21, 2024
Live Updates: The Delhi Police have imposed Section 144 outside Arvind Kejriwal’s residence, banning large gatherings. Aam Aadmi Party workers are protesting outside his house against the Enforcement Directorate’s action.
After the arrest of BRS leader K Kavitha last week, the Enforcement Directorate alleged that she conspired with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and other AAP leaders in the case. The agency alleges that Kavitha paid Rs 100 crore to Aam Aadmi Party leaders.
Probe found that Ms K Kavitha along with others conspired with the top leaders of AAP including Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia to get favours in the Delhi excise policy-formulation and implementation,” the ED said in a statement.
“In exchange of these favours, she was involved in paying Rs 100 crore to the leaders of AAP,” the agency said.
The AAP said the agency’s charges are a “desperate attempt” to malign the image of its Mr Kejriwal and former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia by “planting falsehoods and creating a media sensation” every day.
#WATCH | AAP workers stage protest outside the residence of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.
Enforcement Directorate team is present at Arvind Kejriwal’s residence for questioning. pic.twitter.com/d13c09VGk7
– ANI (@ANI) March 21, 2024
“Just before the Lok Sabha elections, a big conspiracy is going on to arrest Arvind Kejriwal ji. Kejriwal ji has the blessings of crores of people, no one can spoil even a hair,” Raghav Chadha said.
लोक सभा चुनावों से ठीक पहले अरविंद केजरीवाल जी को गिरफ़्तार करने की बहुत बड़ी साज़िश चल रही है।
केजरीवाल जी के साथ करोड़ों लोगों का आशीर्वाद है, कोई बाल भी बाँका नहीं कर सकता।
दिल्ली और पंजाब में हुए शानदार कामों की चर्चा आज पूरी दुनिया में हो रही है। केजरीवाल के शरीर को…
– Raghav Chadha (@raghav_chadha) March 21, 2024
Arvind Kejriwal Questioning Live Updates: Sources said many questions related to liquor scams are being asked from Arvind Kejriwal. Questions related to liquor policy are being asked to Kejriwal regarding the meetings held at Kejriwal’s house.
#WATCH | Enforcement Directorate team reached Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s residence for questioning.
Delhi minister and AAP leader Atishi says, ” Arvind Kejriwal is not a person, he is an idea… We cannot go inside because heavy security is deployed. We will wait here. If a… pic.twitter.com/HjaMuCCpjP
– ANI (@ANI) March 21, 2024
Arvind Kejriwal Live Updates: Sources said Chief Minister’s and his family members’ phones have been confiscated by the ED team as questioning continues.
Security was beefed up around Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence in Civil Lines Thursday evening with the deployment of RAF and CRPF units along with Delhi Police personnel as Enforcement Directorate officials reached there in connection with an excise policy-linked money laundering case.
“The deployment has been made in anticipation of a gathering of AAP workers near his residence,” a police officer said.
Updates: Last week, K Kavitha, BRS leader and daughter of former Telangana Chief Minister KCR, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in Hyderabad. The arrest came hours after her house was raided by the agency.
The Enforcement Directorate has claimed that Ms Kavitha was part of a lobby called the ‘South Group’, which played a key role in the alleged Delhi liquor policy scam. The other members of the group, according to the agency, were Hyderabad businessman Sarath Reddy, YSR Congress Party MP Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy and his son Raghav Magunta Reddy. Sarath Reddy and Raghav Reddy have turned approvers in the case.
Live Updates: The Enforcement Directorate is questioning Arvind Kejriwal under Section 50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Live Updates: The team of Enforcement Directorate has started questioning Arvind Kejriwal at his residence
“All efforts are underway to arrest Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who is providing world-class education-health-electricity-water facilities in Delhi. Arresting him just before the elections in a case that has been going on for 2 years shows political conspiracy. The whole of Delhi and the whole country is with Kejriwal,” AAP MP Swati Maliwal said.
दिल्ली में वर्ल्डक्लास शिक्षा-स्वास्थ्य-बिजली-पानी की सुविधा देने वाले मुख्यमंत्री @ArvindKejriwal को गिरफ़्तार करने की पूरी कोशिश जारी है।
2 साल से चल रहे एक केस में चुनाव से ठीक पहले उन्हें गिरफ़्तार करना राजनीतिक साज़िश दिखाता है। पूरी दिल्ली और पूरा देश केजरीवाल के साथ है।…
– Swati Maliwal (@SwatiJaiHind) March 21, 2024
Live Updates: The deployment of police has been increased outside Arvind Kejriwal’s house
Live Updates: “BJP’s political team (ED) cannot arrest Kejriwal’s thinking…because only AAP can stop BJP. Thinking can never be suppressed,” Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said.
भाजपा की राजनीतिक टीम (ED) .,केजरीवाल की सोच को कैद नहीं कर सकती…क्योंकि AAP ही BJP को रोक सकती हैं..
सोच को कभी भी दबाया नहीं जा सकता– Bhagwant Mann (@BhagwantMann) March 21, 2024
Live Updates: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is approaching the Supreme Court for an urgent listing of the matter. A team of senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi will approach the Chief Justice of India for an urgent hearing
#WATCH | Delhi Minister and AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj arrives at the residence of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.
Enforcement Directorate team has reached Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s residence for questioning. pic.twitter.com/ZbRWAEXECj
– ANI (@ANI) March 21, 2024
Live Updates: Delhi Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj said that “The way police are inside and nobody is allowed in, it seems like a raid is being conducted. It seems they have planned to arrest Arvind Kejriwal”
Updates: Arvind Kejriwal has repeatedly refused to appear before the ED, calling the summons by the central agency illegal. AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh are in judicial custody in the Delhi liquor policy case.
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