New Delhi. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a fresh complaint in a court seeking prosecution against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for not complying with summons in the money laundering probe. Official sources gave this information on Wednesday.
He said that the new complaint pertains to non-compliance of summons numbers 4 to 8 by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Kejriwal.The court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Divya Malhotra has fixed the hearing of the case on Thursday. The ED had earlier filed a petition in a local court seeking prosecution against Kejriwal for not appearing on the first three summons issued to him in the money laundering probe related to Delhi Excise Policy.
The court has listed the matter for hearing on March 16. Kejriwal (55) had termed all these eight ED summons as ‘illegal’ and had last informed the federal agency that he could be interrogated through video conferencing after March 12.
The ED has filed a fresh complaint under Section 63 (4) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) read with Section 174 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) (disobeying order of a public servant), among other sections. This section of PMLA pertains to willful disobedience of any instruction.
