The Supreme Court has issued notice on Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh’s bail plea in a money laundering case related to the Delhi excise policy scam. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta has also sought the Enforcement Directorate’s response. Singh’s plea challenging his arrest and remand will be heard on March 5. He has contested the Delhi High Court’s dismissal of his plea against the ED’s arrest.
The high court had reserved its order on Singh’s plea on October 19. The ASG opposed the plea, arguing that it was essentially a bail application under the guise of Article 226 and was not maintainable.
Special Judge MK Nagpal of the Rouse Avenue Court had remanded Singh to 14 days of judicial custody on October 13. He will be produced before the court on October 27. The judge had earlier extended Singh’s remand to ED custody until October 13.
Singh was arrested by the ED on October 4 in connection with the money laundering case. He was taken into custody after day-long searches at his residence. This is the third high-profile arrest in the case.
In the prosecution complaint filed by the ED, Singh’s name appeared in a statement by businessman Dinesh Arora. Arora and Raghav Magunta, son of YSR Congress MP Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, were both accused in the case and were allowed to “turn approvers” by a Delhi court. Vijay Nair, a businessman and AAP’s communication in-charge, was also arrested in September 2022, while former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia was arrested in February this year.
