Arvind Kejriwal challenges a summons in an excise fraud case before sessions court

Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, has filed a motion before this sessions court to contest the summons that a lower court had given to him in response to two complaints made by the Enforcement Directorate accusing him of dodging its summonses in connection with a money-laundering case involving the purported excise fraud.

Extra Meetings Kejriwal’s motions are anticipated to be heard by Judge Rakesh Syal later in the day.

In defiance of Divya Malhotra, the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM), who ordered Kejriwal to appear in court on March 16, Kejriwal filed a motion in the Sessions Court.

Kejriwal was the subject of two complaints from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to the magistrate court, requesting that he be prosecuted for allegedly ignoring many summonses related to the matter.

The most recent complaint concerns the national convenor of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) not responding to summonses number four through eight issued by the federal investigative agency in accordance with Section 50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), according to the ED.

Kejriwal was sent with three summonses in the money-laundering case related to the now-canceled Delhi excise policy, but he did not appear for them. The ED had already filed a motion before the magistrate court to prosecute Kejriwal.

The case (pertaining to summonses number one through number three) has been scheduled for hearing before ACMM Malhotra’s court on March 16 in conjunction with the other complaint.

According to the ED, Kejriwal has so far ignored eight summonses from the organization.