CBI Requested 56 Questions, Case Is Faux, Says Arvind Kejriwal After 9-Hour Questioning In Delhi Liquor Coverage Case

New Delhi:

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was questioned for practically 9 hours by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday within the liquor coverage case. He was questioned as a witness within the case which investigators stated concerned corruption in framing the coverage to learn a liquor foyer. He hasn’t been summoned for additional questioning by the central company up to now.

“The CBI requested me a complete of 56 questions. All the things is pretend. The case is pretend. I’m satisfied they do not have something on us, not a single piece of proof,” Mr Kejriwal informed reporters after reaching dwelling from the CBI headquarters close to central Delhi’s Lodhi Highway.

Mr Kejriwal’s ex deputy Manish Sisodia, who held the excise portfolio, was arrested in the identical case final month.

“The CBI requested me all the things ranging from 2020, the 12 months the liquor coverage got here into drive, to the tip of it,” Mr Kejriwal stated, including he’ll talk about extra within the particular session of the Delhi meeting referred to as by the Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) authorities immediately.

“This liquor coverage case is a lie, fabricated. Honesty is our ideology. We’re prepared to die however will not compromise with honesty. They’re doing all this to defame us and our good, growth work. We’ve got develop into a nationwide get together now, which is why they’re doing this to finish us,” Mr Kejriwal informed reporters.

Whereas Mr Kejriwal was being questioned by the CBI, the AAP referred to as an emergency assembly of senior leaders this night amid considerations that he might be arrested, information company ANI reported quoting sources.

AAP leaders together with Raghav Chadha and Sanjay Singh have been detained by the Delhi Police for protesting close to the CBI’s workplace. They have been freed as quickly as Mr Kejriwal stepped out.

“BJP suffers from Kejriwal phobia. It’s due to Kejriwal’s worry that the BJP has come right down to such an act. It’s a cowardly act. We aren’t frightened of jail,” Mr Chadha stated.

The CBI has stated the then secretary to Mr Sisodia informed investigators that the draft liquor coverage was given to him in March 2021 by the now-arrested chief at Mr Kejriwal’s dwelling.

The bureaucrat, C Arvind, has given the assertion earlier than a Justice of the Peace, making it admissible proof in court docket. The CBI needed Mr Kejriwal’s assertion on the assembly, because it allegedly came about at his dwelling.

The excise coverage was cleared by the Delhi authorities after an inquiry was ordered by the then Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal. The clearance got here after it had been deferred twice. The CBI needs to search out out why.

The Delhi authorities scrapped the brand new liquor coverage in July 2022, lower than a 12 months after it was launched, and reverted to the outdated coverage.