NEW DELHI: The AAP said that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will not be appearing before the Enforcement Directorate on Monday over the money laundering investigation related to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam, and that the agency need to wait for the court judgement rather than issue repeated summonses. Kejriwal has evaded the ED summons seven times in a row. Last Monday, the agency sent the chief minister a seventh summons, requesting that he come in for questioning. Kejriwal has so far ignored every summons, referring to them as “illegal”.Additionally, he had written to the ED to request their withdrawal. The AAP declared in a statement that the chief minister will not be appearing before the ED. It stated that rather than issuing out more summonses, the agency should wait for the Delhi court’s decision on March 16 about the legitimacy of the ED summons. The argument that Kejriwal should not have received a fresh notice requiring his attendance because the case was still pending in a local court was dismissed by the ED when it issued the seventh summons.
