ED Officers Did not Conduct Searches, Sat in Dwelling Room of Kejriwal’s PA’s Home: Atishi

The ED officers who raided the premises of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s private assistant Bibhav Kumar sat in the lounge of his home and didn’t even fake to hold out any searches, Delhi minister Atishi mentioned on Wednesday.

The officers didn’t search any rooms or search for any paperwork. They didn’t even care to elucidate in reference to which case that they had gone there, she mentioned at a press convention.

There was no rapid response from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to Atishi’s claims. Sources had mentioned on Tuesday that the raids had been carried out in reference to “irregularities” in a Delhi Jal Board (DJB) tendering course of.

The ’panchnama’ doc confirmed that the ED workforce took with it simply two Gmail account downloads and three household telephones from Kumar’s home, Atishi claimed. The ED raids are nothing however an assault on Kejriwal to crush him as a result of he’s the one one who overtly challenges the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, she charged.

About 10-12 premises within the nationwide capital had been lined by the ED as a part of the raids carried out beneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA).

Apart from Bibhav Kumar, the workplace of AAP treasurer N D Gupta, residences of former DJB member Shalabh Kumar, a chartered accountant (CA), Pankaj Mangal, and a few others linked to the AAP had been lined by the officers of the company.

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