Aam Aadmi Party national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday claimed that his party MP Sanjay Singh and other leaders have been put under false cases. AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday for alleged money laundering in the now-scrapped liquor policy in the national capital. He is the third party leader to be arrested after former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.
"They are just putting false cases. Nothing comes out in the investigation. This is a waste of time for the investigative agencies. The country will not progress by putting false cases on people,” Kejriwal said while speaking to reporters.
The enforcement agency on Thursday sought 10 days of remand for the AAP leader saying it has to confront Singh with digital evidence.
"We have to extract digital data, further, he needs to be interrogated with other persons... A total of 239 places were searched. Yesterday, a search happened at his home. The employee of Dinesh Arora deposited Rs 2 crore cash at Sanjay Singh's residence. He also says Rs 1 crore, he picked from Indospirits," Special Public Prosecutor Naveen Kumar Matta appearing for the ED submitted.
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Earlier in the day, Kejriwal raised significant doubts regarding the ongoing raids in connection with the liquor policy case.
"Over a thousand raids have been conducted in connection with the liquor scam, don't know how many people have been arrested. They say that it was a scam of Rs 100 crore, however, even after so many raids they have failed to find even a penny," he said.