Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is the "headman and crucial conspirator" of the excise policy fiddle and the arrest of a person for an offence grounded on material can no way violate the conception of free and fair choices, the ED has told the Supreme Court. The Directorate of Enforcement(ED) claimed that Kejriwal worked in conspiracy with his ministers and AAP leaders and was also involved in demanding effects from liquor businessmen in exchange for favours granted in the policy.
Arvind Kejriwal, principal minister of NCT of Delhi, is the headman and crucial conspirator of the Delhi excise fiddle in conspiracy with ministers of the Delhi govt, AAP leaders and other persons, "the agency said in its 734- runner reply affidavit. "Arvind Kejriwal was involved in the conspiracy of expression of the excise policy 2021-22 to favour certain persons and also involved in the demanding effects from liquor businessmen in exchange for favours granted in the sald policy.
The ED said there are no different vittles in the PMLA, 2002 for different norms of substantiation to be available to arrest a Chief Minister or a common citizen and the supplicant by emphasising his position is trying to sculpt out a special order for himself which can not be accepted.
Fighting Kejriwal's contention that his arrest violates introductory structures and doctrine of free and fair choices, the inquiry agency, which arrested Kejriwal in the case, said, "The arrest of a person, still grandly he may be, for a commission of offence grounded on material, can no way violate the conception of free and fair choices still, politicians who are culprits would be granted impunity from arrest on the ground that he's needed to canvass in the election, it said, "If the forenamed argument is accepted.
"Treating a politician else from an ordinary miscreant in a matter of arrest would amount to arbitrary and illogical exercise of power of arrest which would violate the principle of equivalency elevated under Composition 14 of the Constitution, it added. The agency refocused out that the arrest of Kejriwal was made because the probing officer is in possession of material as needed under section 19 which would indicate his guilt of the offence of plutocrat laundering punishable under the PMLA.
"A discriminational treatment in favour of a politician who's shamefaced of the offence of plutocrat laundering would violate" rule of law which would be a violation of the introductory structure of the Constitution, it said. Justifying his arrest, the ED said Kejriwal had been arrested bona fide and not for any mala fide or extraneous reasons. "It's categorically denied that the arrest was mala fide. Regarding the contention pertaining to mala fide, it's submitted that not only the contentions of the supplicant is unwarranted and ill-innovated but it's vague, general and not specific, it said.
