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With the courts affirming the validity of EDs summons to him, two days ago the agency issued a fresh one to Kejriwal to join its investigation into the alleged liquor scam while also asking him to also join the probe into a new case: alleged money-laundering related to a Delhi Jal Board (DJB) case.. In the Delhi excise policy case, he had disregarded eight summonses till he got relief from the court..
But now in addition to the excise policy case, ED wants to question him in the DJB case, just when the Election Commission has announced the schedule for the Lok Sabha polls...
In July 2022, the CBI registered a case of corruption against officials of the Delhi Jal Board and the NBCC for allegedly favouring an ineligible private company in a contract worth Rs 38 crore for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of electromagnetic flow meters..
Later, the Enforcement Directorate carried out searches on 16 premises in Delhi-NCR, Chennai and Kerala of officials of the DJB, the NBCC and private entities for alleged money laundering in connection with the electromagnetic flow meters case.. The agency booked former DJB officials chief engineer Arora, superintendent engineer PK Gupta, executive engineer Sushil Kumar Goel, assistant engineer Ashok Sharma, AAO Ranjit Kumar, then general manager NBCC DK Mittal and project executive Sadhan Kumar besides private company NKG Infrastructure Limited..
Besides the money-laundering case pertaining to the electromagnetic flow meters tender, the ED is probing another money-laundering case registered on the basis of an FIR by the anti-corruption branch of Delhi government in which some DJB officials are accused of irregularities in awarding a tender for setting up bill payment collection machines (kiosks) at different locations of DJB offices...
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