ED questions Delhi minister Kailash Gahlot for 5 hours in excise policy case | 5 points

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The senior AAP leader told the Enforcement Directorate that he had no information that Vijay Nair, the communications in-charge of AAP arrested earlier in the excise policy-linked money laundering case, was living in the government bungalow allotted to him...

The Enforcement Directorate questioned Delhi minister Kailash Gahlot for about five hours on Saturday and recorded his statement in connection with a money-laundering investigation linked to the AAP government's now-scrapped excise policy, officials said..

. Gahlot (49), an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Najafgarh, is the minister for transport, home and law in the Delhi government led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has been arrested in the case by the federal agency..

Sources said Gahlot was questioned with regard to the formulation of the excise policy for 2021-22 as he was part of the Group of Ministers (GoM), along with former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and former urban development minister Satyendar Jain..

The agency has mentioned Gahlot's name in its charge sheet and in the context of Vijay Nair, the AAP communications in-charge arrested earlier in the case, saying Nair lived in the government bungalow allotted to Gahlot..

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