Senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case related to the Delhi Liquour Policy case.
The arrest comes hours after Singh’s house was raided by the probe agency.
This is the second high-profile arrest in the case. Earlier, former Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi and AAP’s tall leader Manish Sisodia was arrested by the ED in the alleged liquor scam. Sisodia was arrested in March and failed in repeated attempts to get bail.
Sanjay Singh was named in the ED chargesheet, which stated that a restaurateur named Dinesh Arora had met the Rajya Sabha MP during a party in his restaurant Unplugged Courtyard. The agency said in 2020, Singh allegedly requested Arora to ask restaurant owners to generate funds for the AAP for the Delhi assembly elections. According to ED, Arora allegedly handed over a cheque of ₹82 lakh to Singh.
Calling Singh’s arrest as “completely illegal”, Delhi Chief Minister and AAP founder Arvind Kejriwal said: “This shows Modi Ji’s desperation. They will arrest many more opposition leaders…”
Videos showed Sanjay Singh sloganeering with his supporters as he is being taken away from his residence after being arrested by the Enforcement Directorate.
“Today, Sanjay Singh has been arrested without any evidence or concrete reason. It proves that the PM knows that he is losing the elections. There is desperation and fear of loss out of which the Central Government is making central agencies do such things”, said Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj.
 leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case related to the Delhi Liquour Policy case.){kind=link}