Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader and cabinet minister Shri Saurabh Bharadwaj said that yesterday the trial court passed an order in the matter of bail of Shri Arvind Kejriwal ji and this order has completely demolished the ED’s so-called liquor scam case. This order has completely ended the investigation that the Central Government was pretending to do for the last 2 years. He said that it has been clearly stated in this order that till date not single evidence has been presented by the ED which proves that Chief Minister Shri Arvind Kejriwal has any role in this so-called liquor scam. The judge has also said in her order that it is not fair that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will remain in jail as long as the ED investigation continues.
Addressing a press conference held at the party headquarters, Shri Saurabh Bharadwaj said, “Yesterday, the trial court of Rouse Avenue granted bail to Shri Arvind Kejriwal and today this written order has come out. The entire case of the ED has been demolished by this order of the trial court. After this order the whole case of the ED has been torn to shreds and the ED is left with nothing. The entire fortress of investigation that the Central Government had been building for the past two years has collapsed.”
Quoting the judge’s remarks in the order, Shri Saurabh Bharadwaj stated, “In the recent past, the honourable supreme court and the honourable Chief Justice of India have been encouraging the trial courts to take up such matters and decide the same. Recently, on the CBI Day celebration, the Honourable Chief Justice of India, while addressing a gathering, and perceiving the difficult and cumbersome task being done by the trial court special judges attending ED and CBI matters, passed encouraging remarks on such courts for their motivation and inspiration.”
Shri Saurabh Bharadwaj said that the Aam Aadmi Party has been saying this from the very first day that there is no evidence. False statements were taken from some people by threatening and luring them and they were made to speak. An attempt is being made to trap Chief Minister Shri Arvind Kejriwal based on the statements. Finally, the court has also accepted this now.
Citing the trial court’s order, Shri Saurabh Bharadwaj said that the Aam Aadmi Party has been saying from the first day that there is no evidence. False statements were taken from some people by threatening and luring them and based on those statements, an attempt is being made to trap Chief Minister Shri Arvind Kejriwal. Finally, the court has also accepted this now. Explaining this point in detail to the journalists, Saurabh Bharadwaj said that when the ED lawyer said in the court that we have to give some lollipop or bribe the witness to get his testimony and this method of investigation is an art, then the court commented on this statement of the ED lawyer and said that I could not digest this art of yours. The judge said that in this way any artist can put any person in jail through this art. The court has said that putting a person in jail based on a statement taken against another person by threatening or luring him is not legal.
The Delhi Cabinet Minister said that ED says one thing before the court every time that we have found a chat between a guilty person and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in this case, which we have as evidence. Shri Saurabh Bharadwaj said that only this much is written in that chat, that the person congratulated Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on his birthday and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal thanked him in return. He said that thousands of people congratulate the Chief Minister on his birthday and the Chief Minister also thanks them.
He said commenting on this, the court has said in its order that even if a person is guilty and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal knows him, then how does it prove that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has any role in this alleged liquor scam. The court said that for that ED will have to present evidence of his role in the court.
Shri Saurabh Bharadwaj said that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s name is neither in the CBI FIR nor in the FIR of ED and till date the court has not summoned him in this case. He said that whatever evidence ED is presenting in the court were with ED for the last one year, so what was ED waiting for during the last one year? He said that the court heard all the arguments given by ED lawyers in detail, gave them sufficient time and after hearing all the arguments, the court granted bail to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in this case.
The Delhi Cabinet Minister said that it becomes necessary to grant bail to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in this case because section 45 of PMLA Act says that if the public prosecutor opposes any bail and the court hears all the arguments of the public prosecutor and despite hearing all the arguments, the court agrees that there is no case against the accused in the case, only then the court grants bail to the accused person. “This proves that the court has rejected the fact that on the basis of whatever evidence ED presented before the court in this case, there is no case against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal,” said Shri Saurabh Bharadwaj
The senior AAP leader said that the order of the trial court has dismissed the entire case of ED. “This is why ED’s lawyer hurriedly reached the High Court early in the morning. I am very surprised that how the High Court stayed the order in a case in which the trial court’s order was not even issued,” said Shri Saurabh Bharadwaj.
