‘ED fears Sarath Reddy will flee India, won’t testify against Kejriwal’

QUESTIONING “INTENTIONS” of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh has alleged that the central probe agency has opposed the overseas visit of the Delhi excise policy case approver, Sarath Reddy, on the ground that Reddy would flee the country and there would not be any statement against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was arrested by the ED on March 21.

Addressing the media on Sunday, Singh said: “Witnesses were coerced to testify against the Delhi CM. Out of the 456 witnesses, only four mentioned Kejriwal.” He also said that Reddy gave a bribe of Rs 60 crore to the BJP, and “ED itself had called Reddy the ‘kingpin’ of the alleged excise policy scam”.

“They did not take Arvind Kejriwal’s name in 10 out of 12 statements... ED opposes foreign visit of its approver Reddy on the ground that he may not return to India to support the case .... When Reddy approached the court for permission to travel abroad for work purposes, the ED opposed it,” he said.

Referring to a news report by The Indian Express, Singh said: “A

Sanjay Singh: ED itself had called Reddy the ‘kingpin’ of the alleged Delhi excise policy scam

major news report was published in an English daily today, in which ED says that he is not joining our probe. If you allow him to go abroad, he will run away, he will not come back to give a statement against Arvind Kejriwal.”

Singh claimed that this was because the ED has made Reddy file a “false statement”, and that he does not want to join the investigation because he has got no evidence to present against Kejriwal. Urging the Supreme Court to take the matter into cognisance, Singh said: “Your (ED’S) approver, whom you (ED) got pardoned from the court — while opposing his foreign travel — you have told the court that if he is allowed to go abroad, he will never come back to give a statement against Arvind Kejriwal. ‘He (Sarath Reddy) does not come when we (ED) summon him through email or call him’, this is what the ED officials themselves said in front of the court, while opposing his foreign travel.”