DELHI LIQUOR POLICY CASE-MP SANJAY SINGH ARRESTED findoutabout.in

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INTRODUCTION

The Enforcement Directorate had arrested Aam Adami Party MP Sanjay Singh after conducting raids at his residence. ED officials raided AAP MP Sanjay Singh’s home in connection with a money laundering case.

Who is Sanjay Singh

Sanjay Singh is an Indian politician who has served as a member of the Rajya Sabha from Delhi since 2018. He is the national spokesperson for the Aam Aadmi Party and the state-in-charge for Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, and Rajasthan. Singh has been a senior leader of the party since its inception in November 2012 and is a member of the party’s foremost decision-making body, the Political Affairs Committee (PAC). He joined hands with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in his apolitical campaigns from the Right To Information campaign in 2006 to the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement led by social activist Anna Hazare. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha on 8 January 2018 from the state of Delhi

Delhi Liquor case- Manish Sisodia and Vijay Nair

This is the third high-profile arrest in the case. While AAP’s communication in-charge Vijay Nair was arrested in September last year, Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was arrested in February this year. Both are still behind bars.

The ED action against Singh, who has emerged as the AAP’s voice in the Rajya Sabha alongside Punjab MP Raghav Chadha, evoked a sharp reaction from Delhi Chief Minister and party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal.

Arvind Kejriwal tweeted-“the arrest “completely illegal” and said that “it shows Modi ji’s nervousness”. “They will arrest many more opposition leaders till the elections”

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ED-chargesheet

The ED had mentioned Sanjay Singh’s name in its charge sheet. It stated that Dinesh Arora, a middleman, had said he had met Singh during a party in his restaurant Unplugged Courtyard.

In 2020, it said, Singh requested him to ask restaurant owners to generate funds for the Aam Aadmi Party for the Delhi assembly elections. He said he gave a cheque of ₹82 lakh for the funds.

According to the charge sheet, Dinesh Arora said in his statement that another accused Amit Arora wanted help in shifting his liquor shop from Okhla to Pitampura. He managed this through Singh who told Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and the matter was resolved by the Excise Department.

Dinesh Arora also said he met Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal once at his residence with Singh while he had spoken to Sisodia five-six times, the charge sheet stated.

AAP alleged that the ED has “targeted” Singh as he raised issues related to the Adani group in Parliament

It is alleged that the Delhi government’s excise policy for 2021-22 to grant licenses to liquor traders allowed cartelisation and favoured specific dealers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a charge strongly refuted by the AAP.

The policy was subsequently scrapped and the Delhi lieutenant governor recommended a CBI probe, following which the ED registered a case under the PMLA.