The ruling Aam Admi Party (AAP) in Delhi said on Wednesday that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is "targeting" Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh after he expressed concerns about the Gautam Adani Group and sought an investigation in Parliament. The party made the statement in response to ongoing ED raids on Sanjay Singh's residences in connection with the Delhi excise policy-related money laundering investigation.
"Sanjay Singh continued to raise concerns about Adani, which is why the raids are taking place at his home." The central agencies discovered nothing previously and will find nothing today. "First, they raided the homes of some journalists yesterday, and today, they raided Sanjay Singh's home," AAP spokesman Reena Gupta said.
Meanwhile, Sanjay Singh's father, Dinesh Singh, has stated that the family is cooperating with the ED. "The ED is performing its duties. I'm not sure what time it was, but they arrived around 7.30 a.m. to perform raids..."I told ED officials they could conduct raids until late at night, but we don't want them to come back," he stated.
It is claimed that the Delhi government's excise strategy for 2021-22, which granted liquor sellers licences, encouraged cartelization.
The ED raids Sanjay Singh's home.
On Wednesday morning, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided the home of Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh in connection with the Excise policy issue. According to sources, the ED raids are being carried out in conjunction with its ongoing investigation into the Delhi Excise Policy case, in which numerous AAP leaders are being investigated.
Sanjay Singh had earlier in May written to Finance Secretary T V Somanathan, alleging that the ED Director and Assistant Director had purposefully linked his name to the suspected liquor fraud, ruining his public image and defaming him.
The AAP MP stated that his name was included based on Dinesh Arora's assertions. Singh made severe claims, claiming that the cops abused their positions and harmed his public image, and he requested that they be prosecuted.
He stated that he had already served the officers with a legal notice requiring them to issue an open and public apology. According to ED sources, the AAP leader's name appears four times on the ED charge sheet, with one reference being incorrect and written mistakenly. It should be remembered that two prominent AAP politicians, former Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, are already imprisoned and undergoing trials in charges involving financial violations.
Importantly, the Supreme Court will hear the bail application of AAP leader and former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in connection with the excise policy case. Raghav Magunta, son of YSR Congress Party Lok Sabha MP Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, and Delhi-based businessman Dinesh Arora were granted approval by a Delhi court on Tuesday in a money laundering case related to the alleged Delhi excise policy fraud.
Magunta and Arora were both pardoned by Special Judge M K Nagpal, who also ordered them to help with the inquiry and provide all information they had regarding the crime to the investigators.
The Delhi government's excise policy for 2021-22, which grants licences to liquor traders, is said to have facilitated cartelisation and favoured particular dealers who reportedly paid bribes for it, a claim strenuously denied by the AAP.
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