Arvind Kejriwal – ED Live News Updates: Meanwhile, the Delhi CM has moved the Supreme Court seeking an urgent hearing challenging the Delhi HC order challenging the summons issued to him in the excise policy case by the ED and the validity of certain provisions of the PMLA.
Agencies/JK News Today
Delhi, March 21: A 12-member team of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal at his residence in North Delhi’s Civil Lines this evening. The ED team reached his residence and began questioning after Delhi HC refused to grant CM Arvind Kejriwal protection from coercive action in excise policy case earlier today.
Meanwhile, the Delhi CM has moved the Supreme Court seeking an urgent hearing challenging the Delhi HC order. The top court is expected to hear the matter on Friday morning. Earlier in the day, a division bench of the Delhi HC heard CM Arvind Kejriwal’s application for interim relief for ‘no coercive steps’ against him, challenging the summons issued to him in the excise policy case by the ED and the validity of certain provisions of the PMLA. The HC noted: “At this stage we are not inclined to pass such an order”.
Section 144 has been imposed outside Delhi CM’s residence as AAP leaders and followers gather outside the residence to show support. Security was beefed up around Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence in Civil Lines Thursday evening with the deployment of RAF and CRPF units along with Delhi Police personnel. Barricades were put up on the lane leading to his official residence in Civil Lines in north Delhi and additional police personnel deployed there, officials said. Kejriwal was summoned for the ninth time by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday in connection to the excise policy case.