Kejriwal will come out of Tihar jail on Friday after furnishing a bail bond of Rs 1 lakh.However, the court also imposed certain conditions, including that he will not attempt to obstruct the investigation or influence witnesses.
After the order was pronounced at around 7.56 pm, Ed The court was requested to delay the signing of the bail bond by 48 hours so that the order could be challenged before the appellate court. However, the court rejected the plea and asked to present the bail bond before the duty judge on Friday. The ED will file an appeal in the High Court on Friday. Kejriwal was arrested by the ED on March 21.
ED is speculating and making guesses: CM tells court
Kejriwal was arrested. Blame He alleged that he was part of the alleged scam conspiracy in the implementation of the now-scrapped policy.
A day earlier, his lawyer Vikram Chaudhary had told the court that the case against him was entirely based on the statements of people who were not only tainted but also arrested and later promised bail to support the ED’s case. He had also argued that there was no concrete evidence that Rs 100 crore was given to AAP He said officials of the so-called ‘South Group’ “did not make any kind of camera recording or exchange money.”
During the hearing on Thursday, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) SV Raju, appearing for the ED, told the court that the agency was not conducting an investigation in the air but had concrete evidence. He said the pictures of currency notes produced in the court were part of the money paid as bribe and were related to Kejriwal’s stay at a seven-star hotel in Goa.
“Instructions to make payments to Chanpreet Singh and others were received from a person named Vinod Chauhan. Photos have been found on Chauhan’s phone. Chanpreet was talking to him regularly on the phone… Chauhan has good relations with Arvind Kejriwal,” Raju claimed.
Chauhan, an accused in the case, is accused of handling the proceeds of crimes involving hawala operators and managing their postings at other places. Delhi Water Board The ED has said that he was responsible for the transfer of Rs 25.5 crore from Delhi to Goa.
According to the ED, Chanpreet Singh was the fund manager of the AAP for the Goa elections. He is accused of collecting the proceeds of crime from Chouhan and being responsible for the generation/acquisition/utilisation of the alleged proceeds of crime, amounting to Rs 45 crore.
Citing the Delhi CM’s refusal to divulge his phone password, the ED told the court on Thursday: “Kejriwal says mera phone savitha hai. Main password nahi doonga. (I will not give my password)… A contrary inference must be drawn from the fact that Kejriwal has refused to give his password. If he gives his phone, a lot of secrets will come out. This is a ground for denying bail under normal bail law, forget section 45.” PMLA for the time being.”
Raju argued that Kejriwal should be prosecuted under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) even if he was not personally involved in any crime. “You may not have committed a crime but you are responsible for your affairs and if you are guilty of a crime, you are also guilty of it,” he said.
Turning to the co-accused Vijay NairThe ASG said he has no connection with the government and has no business in framing the excise policy. He alleged that Kejriwal used Nair as a middleman.
Referring to the summons sent by ED to the CM, the ASG said that Kejriwal has deliberately disobeyed the summons and the magistrate has taken cognizance of it and sent him the summons. Apart from this, the ED told that after being arrested by the ED, a division bench of the Delhi High Court did not give relief to Kejriwal.
Reacting to the ED’s claims, Kejriwal’s lawyer Choudhary questioned the timing of Kejriwal’s arrest. “Why didn’t you do it?” to arrest “Did the ED already contact him? Why March 21? What did you want from him? Is the ED an independent agency or is it playing into the hands of some political masters?” Chowdhary said.
Choudhary said the ED’s findings are based on hypotheses, if they are still collecting material, it will be an endless investigation. “They say I am the national convener of AAP and so I am responsible for everything done by the party. There is nothing that shows that AAP ever received Rs 45 crore. It is all in the realm of speculation, prejudices and assumptions. They are still making arrests and conducting assessments but keep giving the statement that Rs 100 crore was received as bribe,” he said.
Chaudhary pointed out that nowhere did Chanpreet Singh say that he was paid for the AAP’s Goa election campaign or that he had collected proceeds of crime. “What are these two chats (between Chouhan and Kejriwal) that they have extracted? How can these chats even remotely show transfer of money? This is ED’s conjecture. The chats have nothing to do with excise policy or bribes or Goa elections. Just because Chouhan has a posting order on his phone, it is being presumed that the posting was done by me. If this is to be believed, nobody is safe. Just throw it to the wind,” the senior lawyer urged the court.
He also said that just because Vijay Nair was living in a room in minister Kailash Gehlot’s house, it cannot be said that he was close to Kejriwal.
“Where does he get all this from? Nair said in a statement in 2022 that he reports to Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj“But the ED says he was working under my orders. There is no evidence that I directed him to take bribe or hold any meeting,” Chowdhary said.
The Delhi CM had recently filed two bail pleas in the court – one for interim bail and the other for regular bail. His interim bail plea was rejected on June 5.
