HC requests that ED reply to Kejriwal’s appeal contesting the summons.

On Tuesday, the Delhi High Court asked the Enforcement Directorate to respond to a plea by AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal contesting a summons sent to him about the agency’s charge in a money laundering case involving the purported excise scam.

The trial court’s order, which Kejriwal has contested, is two months old and not a new one, according to Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri, who declined to stay the criminal case’s trial. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) was notified by the high court in a petition contesting the summons sent to the former Delhi chief minister about the agency’s complaint in the matter.

Since one officer issued the summons and another filed the complaint, Kejrwal’s attorney questioned whether the complaint could be maintained. The former chief minister of Delhi has appealed the September 17 ruling of a sessions court that rejected his appeal against the summons. The petition’s maintainability was the subject of a preliminary objection by the ED’s attorney.

Kejriwal had appealed to the sessions court a magisterial court’s order that he appear before it regarding the ED’s charge. After the ED filed two complaints about him avoiding the summons, he appealed the summons that the magistratal court had issued.