The Delhi Rouse Avenue Court has issued summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to appear in person on March 16, following a fresh complaint filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for allegedly disregarding its summonses.
The new complaint relates to Kejriwal allegedly failing to comply with summonses numbered 4 to 8 sent by the federal probe agency under Section 50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Kejriwal, aged 55, has challenged all the ED summonses as “illegal”. He had previously informed the agency that he could be questioned via video conferencing after March 12.
“We have not committed any wrongdoing nor are we attempting to conceal anything,” he stated at a press conference on March 4, the day he was instructed to join the probe as per the ED’s eighth summons.
The ED has filed the fresh complaint under Section 174 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) regarding non-attendance in obedience to an order from a public servant, along with Section 63(4) of the PMLA, which addresses intentional disobedience of any direction. Additionally, it involves sections 190(1)(a) and 200 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) pertaining to receiving a complaint of facts constituting such offenses and evidence of witnesses on oath, respectively, due to non-attendance in compliance with Section 50 of the PMLA.
