Chandigarh:
The Enforcement Directorate on Monday arrested Punjab lawmaker Jaswant Singh Gajjan Majra in reference to a Rs 40 crore financial institution fraud case, hours after he was picked up by the probe company officers from a public assembly.
The AAP MLA was summoned by the probe company not less than thrice however he skipped all of the summons.
The AAP has hit out on the BJP for a “plot to defame us”. “He was going through downside earlier than becoming a member of AAP. It’s BJP’s plot to defame us… the way in which he was picked by ED, throughout a public assembly, reveals BJP’s techniques of defaming and coercing AAP,” occasion spokesperson Malwinder Kang mentioned.
In September final yr, three premises linked to the Aam Aadmi Get together chief, together with his residence, had been searched by the Central Bureau of Investigation in reference to an alleged Rs 41 crore financial institution fraud case. The searches yielded “Rs 16.57 lakh in money, international foreign money (of an unspecified quantity), and incriminating financial institution and property paperwork”, the company had claimed.
In line with the CBI, the case towards Mr Majra and others, together with the Tara Company Restricted, was registered based mostly on a criticism by a Financial institution of India department in Punjab’s Ludhiana. The case additionally named a number of people, senior executives and others, in addition to “unknown public servants”.
ED motion towards Mr Majra comes amid a rash of motion by central investigative companies towards opposition events and leaders, together with AAP boss and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
The ED can be investigating Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel over claims he bought Rs 508 crore in bribes within the Mahadev betting app proprietor. Chhattisgarh votes for a brand new authorities in a two-phase ballot beginning Tuesday, and Mr Baghel has slammed the BJP for having “weaponised” the ED.
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Mr Kejriwal, in the meantime, was referred to as for questioning on November 2 in reference to the Delhi liquor coverage case however skipped the decision, opting as a substitute to marketing campaign in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh.
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Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann slammed the ED over its summoning of Mr Kejriwal, accusing the BJP of eager to jail the occasion figurehead as a result of he had prioritised the welfare of the folks.
Days earlier, the ED had additionally searched areas linked to a different AAP lawmaker – Kulwant Singh – as a part of a drugs-linked cash laundering investigation.
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