The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday searched the premises of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s personal assistant Bibhav Kumar and others in a money laundering case related to alleged irregularities in the Delhi Jal Board (DJB). ED officials conducted a search operation under PMLA from 7 am in the morning till evening in about 10-12 premises. Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal termed ED’s action as hooliganism.
23 ED officers raided my PA’s house for 16 hours, after investigation they found nothing: Kejriwal
Arvind Kejriwal made a long post on X on ED raid. He wrote, Today my PA’s house was raided by 23 ED officers for 16 hours. After a thorough investigation they found nothing. Not a single penny was found, no jewelery or any property of any kind, no papers. They raided Manish Sisodia’s house, nothing was found there. Raid Satyendra Jain’s place, nothing was found there. They raided Sanjay Singh’s house and found nothing there. Can ED enter anyone’s house without any reason? Is this not sheer hooliganism?
Today my PA’s house was raided by 23 ED officers for 16 hours. After a thorough investigation they found nothing. Not a single penny was found, no jewelery or any property of any kind, no papers
They raided Manish Sisodia’s house, nothing was found there. They raided Satyendra Jain’s place…
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) February 6, 2024
There is a conspiracy to crush AAP: Kejriwal
Arvind Kejriwal further wrote, it is clear that all these raids and arrests are being done only out of political malice, to harass us, to crush the Aam Aadmi Party. It’s been two years since we started investigating. Not a single penny or any evidence was found. This country is run by law and constitution. India is not anyone’s inheritance. This country is of 140 crore people. People will not tolerate this type of hooliganism at all.
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It is alleged that bribes worth about Rs 21 crore arising from alleged irregularities in the tender process of Delhi Jal Board (DJB) were sent to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as election funds. In this case, ED had arrested retired chief engineer Jagdish Kumar Arora and contractor Anil Kumar Aggarwal on January 31. The CBI FIR has alleged that Arora awarded some DJB contracts for Rs 38 crore to ‘NKG Infrastructure Limited’ even though the company did not meet the technical eligibility criteria. According to ED sources, the investigation found that NKG Infrastructure Limited allegedly obtained the contract by submitting fake, forged and false documents. It is alleged that Arora was aware that the company did not meet the technical eligibility criteria.