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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) summoned Delhi Transport Minister and AAP leader Kailash Gahlot on Sunday in connection with the liquor policy case..
The development came after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the probe agency on March 21 in the same case.. Gahlot, who is an MLA from Najafgarh, was a part of a panel that prepared the draft of the now-scrapped Delhi government's liquor policy for 2021-22...
According to the ED, the draft liquor policy was leaked to the 'South Group'...
Apart from Kejriwal, former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, former minister Satyendar Jain and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh have been arrested in the liquor policy case.. The case pertains to alleged corruption and money laundering in formulating and executing the Delhi government's liquor policy...
The ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have alleged that the Delhi government's liquor policy to grant licences to liquor traders allowed cartelisation and favoured certain dealers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a charge strongly refuted by AAP...
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