The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)
MP Sanjay Singh’s three associates – Vivek Tyagi, Sarvesh Mishra and Kanwarbir
Singh – in connection with the Delhi excise policy case.
The trio have been issued summons and Mishra appeared before the ED
on Friday.
The probe agency is expected to inquire the three in front of
Sanjay Singh, who is in the ED custody till October 10. Singh was arrested after
a day-long interrogation by the ED officials at his Delhi residence on
Wednesday.
The ED has accused Mishra of receiving ₹2 crore on two occasions on
behalf of Sanjay Singh at the latter’s residence. Tyagi, the personal assistant
of Sanjay Singh, was offered a stake in the business interest of accused Amit
Arora’s firm Aralias Hospitality.
On Thursday, special judge MK Nagpal remanded Sanjay Singh in ED
custody till October 10 to enable the federal probe agency to interrogate him.
The Rajya Sabha MP will be produced before the court on the expiry of his
custody.
The judge noted that from the allegations being levelled against
the accused and the material placed before the court regarding his “direct
nexus with activities pertaining to proceeds of crime by way of receiving ₹2
crore”, his “sustained and custodial interrogation appeared to be necessary to
trace out the complete trail thereof”.
“Therefore, in view of the above and the totality of facts &
circumstances, the accused is being remanded to the custody of ED till October
10, 2023 for the purposes of his detailed and sustained interrogation and
confrontations with the oral and documentary evidence and he shall be produced
before this court at 2 pm on that day,” said the judge.
The judge, however, directed that his interrogation shall be held at
some place having CCTV coverage in accordance with the guidelines stated by the
Supreme Court and the said CCTV footage shall be preserved.
He shall be medically examined once every 48 hours, stated the
judge.
Singh was taken into custody in connection with its money
laundering probe linked to the 2021-22 Delhi Excise policy case in a massive blow
to the city’s ruling AAP.
The ED alleged that the accused was withholding certain information
which was in his exclusive knowledge and was “extremely relevant” to the probe and
hence, his custodial interrogation was needed to investigate the money trail of
the bribe or kickback amount received by him from approver Dinesh Arora.
Besides, it was submitted that he further requires to be confronted
with Tyagi, Singh and Mishra.
ANI
