Arvind Kejriwal summoned by CBI in Delhi liquor policy case

The Delhi chief minister will appear before the agency on April 16, Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh said.

Apr 14, 2023 - 20:30

Arvind Kejriwal summoned by CBI in Delhi liquor policy case

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday summoned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a case related to alleged irregularities in the national capital’s now-scrapped liquor policy.

Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh confirmed the development and said that Kejriwal will appear before the agency on April 16. “The tyranny will definitely come to an end,” he said.

Singh alleged that the CBI summoned Kejriwal as he spoke about the links between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and industrialist Gautam Adani in the Delhi Assembly. “You [Modi] and your government are covered in corruption from head to toe,” the Rajya Sabha MP alleged. “Arvind Kejriwal ji’s fight will not stop because of the summons from the CBI.”

अत्याचार का अंत ज़रूर होगा।@ArvindKejriwal जी को CBI द्वारा समन किये जाने के मामले में शाम 6 बजे प्रेसवार्ता करूँगा।— Sanjay Singh AAP (@SanjayAzadSln) April 14, 2023

The CBI case pertains to the Delhi government’s excise policy that came into effect in November 2021. Under it, licences of 849 liquor shops were issued to private firms through open bidding. Earlier, four government corporations ran 475 liquor stores and the remaining 389 were private shops.

The Central Bureau of Investigation had arrested former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on February 26 in the same alleged scam.

Two days after his arrest, Sisodia had resigned from the...