AAP MP Sanjay Singh / ED raids the house of Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh, search continues

AAP MP Sanjay Singh: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) team has reached the residence of senior Aam Aadmi Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh in the capital Delhi. It is being told that the ED team is searching the house. Sanjay Singh's residence is in North Avenue, Delhi. It is being told that CRPF personnel are also deployed outside the house of AAP leader Sanjay Singh. Sources have said that this raid is happening in connection with the Delhi Excise scam.

Sanjay Singh's name appears at three places in the chartsheet filed by ED in the liquor scam. Many ED officials are present inside the house. The raid has been going on for about an hour. The ED team reached Sanjay Singh's residence at around 7 o'clock.

#WATCH | Visuals from outside AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh's residence

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Raid was also conducted on two associates of Sanjay Singh

Let us tell you that ED has already raided the houses of two associates of Sanjay Singh, Sarvesh Mishra and Ajit Tyagi. ED has interrogated both of them in connection with their conversation with liquor traders. According to ED sources, two accused Raghav Magunta and Dinesh Arora have become witnesses in this case. After which ED raided Sanjay Singh's residence.

So far three people have become government witnesses

Raghav Magunta, accused in the money laundering case, is the son of YSR Congress MP Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy. The court had also allowed Dinesh Arora to become a government witness. At present both of them are out on bail. Earlier, Aurobindo Pharma director Sharad Reddy had also become a government witness. That means in total three people have become government witnesses in this case so far.

Sanjay Singh's name was included in the ED charge sheet in January

In January this year, ED had added Sanjay Singh's name in its charge sheet. Sanjay Singh had created a lot of uproar regarding this. In fact, in May, Sanjay Singh claimed that ED had added his name by mistake. To which ED replied that, Sanjay Singh's name has been written at four places in our charge sheet. In three of these places the name is spelled correctly. There was a typing mistake only at one place.

After which ED had advised Sanjay Singh not to make statements in the media as the matter is pending in the court.

What is the allegation against Sanjay Singh

In the ED charge sheet, Sanjay Singh is accused of taking donations worth Rs 82 lakh. Regarding this, ED reached his house on Wednesday and is interrogating him. ED's second supplementary charge sheet in the Delhi Liquor Policy case was released on May 2. In which the name of Aam Aadmi Party's Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha also appeared. Although he has not been made an accused.