Delhi minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Atishi said the Supreme Court hearing after which party leader Sanjay Singh was granted bail today, made two things clear. The comments of judges, she declared, have vindicated the party’s stand that the Enforcement Directorate, which has been investigating the alleged liquor scam, has been unable to trace the alleged bribe money or even a trail.
The central agency has arrested a handful of AAP leaders in the case, including Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is currently in Tihar jail.
“The court asked where the money trail was. A search for that money trail has been on for the last two years. Today, when the court asked, the Enforcement Directorate had no answer,” she told reporters.
Mr Singh’s bail today came after the court specifically questioned why he had been jailed for over six months without trial or even the recovery of alleged bribe money.
“Nothing has been recovered… there is no trace (of the Rs 100 crore the AAP allegedly received as bribes for allotting liquor licences to the ‘South Group’),” said the bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Dipankar Datta, and Prasanna B Varale.
Secondly, witnesses were prepared against AAP leaders, Atishi said.
“People were made approvers by threatening and intimidating them. When people did not say anything against AAP, they were broken and then statements were made against Arvind Kejriwal and other leaders,’ she said.
“Today, the whole country came to know that the so-called liquor scam stands on the basis of false witnesses,” she added.
