AAP minister raided by ED on a day Kejriwal skipped ED summon

Enforcement Directorate officials reached the residence of Delhi minister from Arvind Kejriwal’s cabinet, Raaj Kumar Anand early on Thursday morning, raids are currently underway for over several hours in connection with alleged custom evasion and money laundering probe. This came hours before Aam Aadmi Party convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was supposed to appear before the ED, which he later decided to skip, in connection with alleged Delhi liquor scam. ED had summoned Kejriwal today.


Raids against Raaj Kumar Anand at his residence and 9 other places in Delhi followed the chargesheet filed by Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on charges of false declarations for custom evasion of more than Rs 7 crore apart from alleged international money laundering. The raids were under the purview of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)


Anand, 57, is the minister for social welfare and SC/ST welfare, he is an MLA from Patel Nagar constituency. Kejriwal had written to ED instead of appearing asking them to recall the summon. AAP called the summon and raids at their minister’s residence political vendetta of BJP.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate are probing the Delhi government's now-scrapped excise policy that allegedly favoured certain liquor dealers under quid pro quo, an allegation that the AAP has strongly denied.