In a setback for the Aam Aadmi Get together chief Sanjay Singh, he was not allowed to take oath right now because the Rajya Sabha MP after Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar didn’t allow the identical. Singh is going through an Enforcement Directorate probe within the alleged Delhi Excise Coverage case. Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar stated that the matter is presently with the Privileges Committee.
Singh was arrested on October 4, 2023, by the ED within the Delhi Excise Coverage case and was charge-sheeted subsequently. Nonetheless, Rouse Avenue had allowed Singh to take oath as MP Rajya Sabha in custody. The court docket additionally prolonged the judicial custody of Sanjay Singh until February 17.
Earlier, Singh had moved a plea in search of interim bail to attend the continuing Parliament session and to take the oath. Nonetheless, because the court docket allowed him to take oath in custody, he withdrew his plea. Singh was earlier granted permission to file his election nomination and to gather his membership certificates from the returning officer.
Singh’s bail software is pending earlier than the Excessive Court docket. A bench of Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma, after listening to the arguments made by each side, had reserved the order. ED has alleged that Singh was concerned in making a particular function car to launder the proceeds of crime that will have been generated from the enterprise arising out of the coverage modifications as conspired by him and his co-conspirators.
Sanjay Singh was then concerned in buying, possessing, concealing, dissipating and utilizing proceeds of crime generated from the Delhi Liquor Rip-off through the coverage interval of 2021-22, stated ED.
In the meantime, Delhi Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj accused Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar of appearing in opposition to the provisions of the Structure after he didn’t permit Sanjay Singh to take oath as an MP. “I believe the Chairman of Rajya Sabha goes in opposition to the constitutional provisions of this nation. Article 99 says that each member shall take the oath. This matter of privileges was associated to his membership, which has already expired….You can not deny him an oath in his new time period…I believe they’re simply politicizing it,” stated Saurabh Bhardwaj.
