Arvind Kejriwal replies to ED summons, 'ready to answer' after March 12: AAP

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Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has sent a reply to the Enforcement Directorate's summons saying he was ready to answer its questions in the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy case through video-conferencing after March 12, news agency PTI reported citing Aam Aadmi Party sources said on Monday.e). Arvind Kejriwal has, so far, skipped eight summonses of the Enforcement Directorate, calling them illegal and asking the agency to wait as the matter was in court..

On February 27, the ED issued an eighth summons to Arvind Kejriwal in a money laundering probe related to irregularities in the Delhi excise policy 2021-22 case, asking him to join the investigation on March 4..

While skipping the seventh summons issued by the ED, the AAP, in a statement, termed it "illegal", saying that the ED should stop sending summonses and wait for the court's decision as the probe agency has already approached the court on the matter...

On February 3, a day after Arvind Kejriwal skipped the fifth summons issued by the ED, the agency approached a Delhi court against him for "non-compliance with the summons"...

In its sixth charge sheet filed in the case on December 2, 2023, naming AAP leader Sanjay Singh and his aide Sarvesh Mishra, the ED has claimed that the AAP used kickbacks worth 45 crore generated via the policy for part of its assembly elections campaign in Goa in 2022..

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