Reports of raids at Arvind Kejriwal’s house rumours: Enforcement Directorate sources

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday dismissed the allegations of AAP leaders of carrying out raids at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence in connection with a money laundering case linked to the alleged liquor policy ‘scam’, sources said.

According to probe agency sources, there was no such plan today to raid Kejriwal’s residence.

Meanwhile, the ED was examining Kejriwal’s response to the federal agency over his reason for not appearing for questioning in the Delhi excise policy case and a fourth summons will be issued to him, sources said.

Kejriwal on Wednesday skipped the third summons by the ED in the Delhi excise policy case and cited Rajya Sabha polls, Republic Day preparations and the probe agency’s “non-disclosure and non-response approach” as reasons for not appearing before it.

On Wednesday night, several AAP leaders, including ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj, claimed they got information that Kejriwal would likely be arrested on Thursday morning after the ED conducted raids at his residence.

“News coming in that ED is going to raid @ArvindKejriwal’s residence tomorrow morning. Arrest likely,” Atishi tweeted on Wednesday night.

Bharadwaj too wrote a similar tweet.

“We have heard that the ED is going to reach the house of Chief Minister Kejriwal tomorrow morning and arrest him,” Bharadwaj posted on X on Wednesday night.

AAP spokesperson Jasmine Shah wrote on X, “Breaking: Sources confirm that ED is going to raid the residence of CM Arvind Kejriwal tomorrow morning. He is likely to be arrested.”

In a letter addressed to the ED on skipping the third summons, Kejriwal also said that he would be “happy to answer” any questionnaire sent by it. He, however, termed the notice “illegal”.

The AAP alleged the ED intended to arrest the Delhi Chief Minister and wanted to prevent him from election campaigning. It also alleged the government wanted to arrest the Opposition leaders and that it took no action against corrupt leaders.

This was the third notice issued to Kejriwal after he refused to appear before the probe agency on two earlier summonses for November 2 and December 21 last year.

The AAP supremo had skipped those summonses too, calling them “illegal” and “politically motivated”.