The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday sent a summon for the eighth time to Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal in connection with the Delhi excise policy case, as per ABP News sources.
The development comes a day after the Delhi CM skipped the enforcement agency's seventh summon in connection with the matter. Kejriwal said he would appear before the central agency if a court orders him to do so.
"If the court says go, then I will go."
The summons were sent to Kejriwal last week.
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As Kejriwal skips summonses, the ED approached a city court which has directed Kejriwal to appear before it on March 16. He also sought to know whether the Union government and the ED do not trust the court and said the probe agency itself moved the court in the matter and they should now wait for its order.
The AAP convener and his party have alleged that the summonses issued by the ED are "illegal". Kejriwal also said that the summonses were a tool to pressure him into leaving the I.N.D.I.A bloc.
"They want us to break the alliance. Their message basically is that we should quit the alliance," he said, claiming there were informal messages to that effect from different quarters.
The AAP chief complained that despite the hearing being underway in the court, the ED has been issuing him summons after summons.
The enforcement agency, while issuing the sevent summons, had rejected the contention that a fresh notice for Kejriwal's attendance was wrong as the matter was sub-judice before a local court.
On Monday, Kejriwal along with his ministers and party MLAs visited Rajghat to mark the one year of the arrest of his former deputy Manish Sisodia in connection with the case.