The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday issued summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for the eighth time for questioning in the Delhi Excise policy scam case.
The central agency has asked the national convenor of the Aam Aadmi Party to depose on March 4 at the ED headquarters in the national capital.
On Monday, Kejriwal skipped the seventh summons issued to him in connection to the case, saying he would appear before the agency if a court ordered him to do so. The AAP supremo alleged that the summons was a tool to pressure him into leaving the INDIA block.
A city court, approached by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) over Kejriwal skipping its summons, has directed the Delhi Chief Minister to appear before it on March 16.
The ED, while issuing the eighth summons, rejected the contention that a fresh notice for Kejriwal’s attendance was wrong as the matter was sub-judice.
Earlier on February 14, the ED had issued a sixth summons to the Delhi Chief Minister in the money laundering probe related to alleged irregularities in the Delhi Excise Policy case, asking him to join the investigation on February 19.
(With inputs from PTI)
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