The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha on Friday claimed that over 100 false cases had been registered against the party leaders but they came clean in courts every time.
Following the CBI raid in the Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia residence, Chadha on Friday claimed that over 100 false cases had been registered against the party leaders but they came clean in courts every time. Chadha claimed that during raids at Sisodia's residence, they will get four pencils, note books and a geometry box," he said.
According to AAP leaders, Arvind Kejriwal's name figured in the 2018 assault on then chief secretary Anshu Prakash during a meeting at the Chief Minister's official residence. In February of that year, the Delhi Police, which comes under the Central Government, visited Chief Minister's residence looking for video and other evidence in connection with an alleged assault by AAP MLAs Amanatullah Khan and Prakash Jarwal.
The trial court had discharged Kejriwal, Sisodia and other AAP MLAs — Rajesh Rishi, Nitin Tyagi, Praveen Kumar, Ajay Dutt, Sanjeev Jha, Rituraj Govind, Rajesh Gupta, Madan Lal, and Dinesh Mohania — in the case.
It ordered the framing of charges against Khan and Jarwal. Kejriwal, Sisodia and nine other party were granted bail in October 2018. Khan and Prakash Jarwal were granted bail earlier by the High Court.
Kejriwal claimed the CBI has "orders from above to harass them", he and his deputy in the past accused the Centre of a witch hunt and even demanded an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for "troubling" the AAP-led Delhi Government.
In December 2015, a few months after the AAP stormed into power in Delhi a second time, the CBI searched the office of Kejriwal in connection with corruption charges against his then principal secretary Rajendra Kumar.
It had prompted Kejriwal to call Modi a "coward" and "psychopath". A few months later, in July 2016, the CBI conducted searches at many locations in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh linked to Kejriwal's principal secretary Rajendra Kumar. Kumar was arrested by the Central agency for allegedly providing undue favours to a company. Kejriwal's nephew Vinay Bansal was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Branch in May 2018 over an alleged scam in the Public Works Department.
Bansal was accused of having a 50 per cent stake in a firm that was allegedly involved in financial irregularities in building a drainage system in northwest Delhi. The CBI officials had reached Sisodia's house on Mathura Road in Delhi in June 2017 to record his statement over the alleged irregularities in 'Talk To AK' campaign held in 2016 where Kejriwal answered questions from people on a wide range of issues such as electricity and water.
Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain is already in judicial custody in a money laundering case. He was arrested by Enforcement Directorate in May this year under Prevention of Money Laundering Act on charges of hawala transactions by five shell companies allegedly controlled by him.
The ED and CBI had raided Jain's residences and properties of other people close to him. In May 2018, the CBI searched Jain's residence for alleged irregularities in hiring architects for Public Works Department (PWD), a portfolio which he helmed for a long time.