Indian Enforcement Directorate on Monday arrested Punjab lawmaker Jaswant Singh Gajjan Majra in connection with a ₹ 40 crore bank fraud case, hours after he was picked up by the probe agency officials from a public meeting.
The AAP MLA was summoned by the probe agency at least thrice but he skipped all of them.
The AAP has hit out at the BJP for a “plot to defame us”. “He was facing problem before joining AAP. It is BJP’s plot to defame us… the way he was picked by ED, during a public meeting, shows BJP’s tactics of defaming and coercing AAP,” party spokesperson Malwinder Kang said.
n September last year, three premises linked to the Aam Aadmi Party leader, including his residence, were searched by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with an alleged Rs.41 crore bank fraud case. The searches yielded “Rs.16.57 lakh in cash, foreign currency (of an unspecified amount), and incriminating bank and property documents”, the agency had claimed.
According to the CBI, the case against Majra and others, including the Tara Corporation Limited, was registered based on a complaint by a Bank of India branch in Punjab’s Ludhiana. The case also named several individuals, senior executives and others, as well as “unknown public servants”.
ED action against Majra comes amid a rash of action by central investigative agencies against opposition parties and leaders, including AAP boss and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
