"enforcement-directorate"

The CBI is yet to official comment on the development.

Delhi's former Deputy Chief Minister and arrested Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia was arrested on Thursday by ED in money laundering in connection with the excise policy case.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal alleged that Manish Sisodia was being kept in jail on false charges and that he was arrested by the ED because he would have got bail

harat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC and Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao's daughter K Kavitha arrived in Delhi today and said that she will be appearing before the Enforcement Directorate on March 11.

"We have seen that BJP has used backdoor entry in 9 states, they are unable to do it in Telangana, which is why they are using ED now, but we are not afraid," said BRS leader K Kavitha

Enforcement Directorate (ED) had interrogated the former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on the alleged kickbacks of Rs 100 crore which the party/leaders received through hawala channel from the South Group.

BRS MLC K Kavitha makes it clear to the Enforcement Directorate that she will not be able to appear for questioning on Thursday in view of prior appointments

The BRS condemned the ED summons to Kavitha, calling it blatant misuse of central agencies against opposition parties and politically motivated witch-hunting

Bharatiya Rashtriya Samiti (BRS) MLC Kavitha is learnt to be asked to depose before the investigators here at ED headquarters and record her statement.

BRS MLC K Kavitha also stated that as a law-abiding citizen, she would continue to fully cooperate with the investigation agencies probing into the Delhi excise policy case

The places searched include residential and office premises of various Congress leaders naming Ram Gopal Agarwal, Girish Devangan, RP Singh, Vinod Tiwari ad Sunny Agrawal, said sources.

ED sources also said that he was close to charge-sheeted accused Dinesh Arora.

The BRS MP sought quashing of the ED proceedings in a case linked to a CBI court trial in Ranchi for alleged fraud against Ranchi Expressway Ltd, a subsidiary of Madhucon Group.

The MP's counsel E Venkata Siddarth submitted that the petitioner was not an accused in the predicate offence

A single-judge bench of Justice Yashwant Varma observed that PMLA empowers the ED to investigate Section 3 offences only.

Justice K Lakshman of the Telangana High Court directed ED to submit its counter in the writ plea filed by BRS MLA from Tandur, Pilot Rohith Reddy.

He wondered as to how ED had summoned him, though the agency was in no way connected to the MLA poaching case.

PMLA investigation revealed that the Delhi Excise Policy, 2021-22, was a device created by leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), some of who are part of the Delhi government to generate illegal funds, reads the charge sheet accessed by IANS.

The legislator who appeared before the ED officials for the second consecutive day, was grilled for nearly eight hours before he was allowed to leave l at around 11 pm on Tuesday night.

Rohit Reddy, the complainant in the MLA poaching case, had earlier alleged that the BJP government at the Centre was using the ED, the CBI and the Income Tax Department to harass BRS leaders.