Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal To Be Questioned By CBI On April 16 In Liquor Policy Case

AAP leader and former Delhi deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has already been arrested by the CBI in the case.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal

Source : PTI

The CBI will question Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in connection with the now-withdrawn liquor policy case on April 16. Kejriwal has been summoned by the CBI at 11 am on Sunday at the agency's headquarters in Delhi.

BJP leader Kapil Mishra said Kejriwal was summoned by CBI after those accused in the liquor 'scam' confessed to giving money after talking to the AAP leader on Facetime.

AAP leader and former Delhi deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has already been arrested by the CBI in the case. Sisodia has also been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering related to the alleged excise scam.

The excise policy 2021-22 was scrapped in August last year and the Delhi L-G later asked the CBI to probe alleged irregularities.

The CBI has alleged that the Delhi government's excise policy for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor traders favoured certain dealers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, an accusation strongly refuted by the AAP. The policy was later scrapped.

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Earlier in the day, Kejriwal accused the ED of "misleading" the court with false evidence in the excise policy case while replying to the agency's charge that Sisodia destroyed his mobile phones.

"The ED is taking false statements by torturing people and pressuring them. Even in the case of Sanjay Singh, it has come to the fore that the accused gave a different statement and the ED has written something else in the charge sheet," PTI quoted Kejriwal as saying.

The AAP leader said many of those phones were in ED's custody and claimed the whole matter was fabricated.

"The ED is misleading the court with false evidence, torturing people, taking false statements. There is nothing in this whole matter, the whole matter is fabricated and is based on false evidence. This is not a good thing," he said.